[HPforGrownups] Re: Maroon

[Helen R. Granberry]

No: HPFGUIDX 88604


Julie:
I, too, read that pun in the essay about the chess game.  I still 
have problems, though, with the RW=DD thing, especially after 
reading the essay about the time turner Troels wrote.  IMVHO, DD and 
MM interact far too much with what is happening for them to be using 
a time turner, which according to Hermione in PoA is a direct 
violation of its use.  Speaking of PoA, this is what further boggles 
my mind, if MM=HG using a time turner, then she is telling herself 
to use a time turner while she is using a time turner.  Time upon 
time upon time...did I just pass myself?  I hope someone with a much 
better understanding of time travel will help me out with that one!



Helen:

Hehe, well, I am the guilty party with regards to the hideous pun in the
'Weasley is Our King' essay -- I wrote it. However, I do *not* think
that McGonagall is Hermione. Ron=DD, I am pretty confident about.
HG=McG, I am not yet convinced. I wouldn't say it is impossible or
completely rule it out, but there just isn't the same level of evidence.
I am still bothered by the idea of McG acting clueless at the beginning
of PS/SS and I am still bothered by the fact that McG doesn't take as
active a role (considering the Ron/Hermione dynamic... just doesn't work
for me, though... I dunno). 

Now, I haven't read Troels essay on the Time Turner (where can I find
it?). However, the problem with seeing your future self has nothing to
do with some weird space/time thing, but just... like Hermione tells
Harry -- if you didn't expect to see your future self, you would think
Dark Magic was at work and do something stupid that would mess up
everything. The issue isn't seeing yourself, but seeing yourself when
you don't expect it. It doesn't matter that Ron sees Dumbledore all of
the time -- Ron doesn't know Dumbledore is his future self. AND...
despite all of Hermione's warnings, it was Harry seeing his future self
that did, indeed, save the day. Nothing wrong with seeing yourself if 1)
You know what is going on (like if Hermione ran into herself while using
the Time Turner for classes) or 2) You don't recognize your future self
(Harry seeing himself cast the Patronus, Ron seeing Dumbledore).