[HPforGrownups] PoA Plot does not work.

[Sara Dockery]

No: HPFGUIDX 91181

johnbowman19 <jhnbwmn at hotmail.com> wrote:
"Okay so the first time Harry is at the lake for the FIRST time, he sees himself across the lake? How can that be? Follow my thoughts, because the narration is told in a line."

 
It seems that JKR subscribes to a more circular theory of time, that it is not all one line that stretches out in front and behind us.  In JKR's apparent theory of time travel you can't really change anything that happened in the past because it's already been done.  This is very similar to the theory of Time Travel used in Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series.  In that the protagonist attempts to change certain events that can't be avoided, she can't because it's all already happened.  This is so hard to explain!  In any case the reason Harry sees himself is that Time Travel Harry is happening parallel to Regular Harry, because (IMO) that's just how time travel works in the Potterverse, changing the past cannot affect the future because the past has already been changed.

Yoda



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