PoA Plot does not work.

[pulpficlet]

No: HPFGUIDX 91203

Pippin wrote:

>  If things go wrong, if, say,  the second ant kills the first one 
>or vice versa, a paradox is created and --- well, we don't know what 
> happens then, but it's not good. Probably the Ministry of Magic 
> has a Paradox Reversal Squad. But the important thing is that, in 
> the Potterverse, it seems that a paradox does not exist until it is 
> observed. The time turner seems to do its best to "anchor" the 
> endpoints, so that if you don't *intend* to allow a paradox to be 
> observed,  no paradox will be created. 

That was a great explanation, Pippin.  The timeturner stuff has 
always troubled me quite a bit, so now I can always think of 
ants.  ::g::

Can you help me with another timeturner problem I have?  In the MoM 
scene in OotP, a whole rack of timeturners breaks and then repairs 
itself.  Doesn't this create a "paradox" under your approach?

Also, doesn't that scene suggest that timeturners have a "life" of 
their own?  There's not a person there to knock the shelf over again 
and again, so the timeturners themselves must be doing this.  Can 
they have an element of knowlege or something?

Or maybe it's all just magic!  ::g::

Paula