[HPforGrownups] Time-Turning as a Cure-All

[Helen R. Granberry]

No: HPFGUIDX 88621


>From Robert:

•While I'm online, let me continue my rant against the idea that 
Dumbledore is Ron and Hermione is McGonagall.

If JKR was going to use time-turning to solve the problem of LV, she 
could have just as easily had someone kill Tom Riddle off as a baby 
and avoid the whole problem.  Why have Dumbledore/Ron bumbling 
along?  Why bother writing these stories if she had a cure-all in 
mind all along?  I'll feel cheated if that is how this whole thing 
ends.

 
>From Helen (LizardLaugh):

I'll leave Hermione/McGonagall out of this, as I am not convinced of
that one yet myself, however...

For all we know, Dumbledore/Ron tried to do just that. And failed. Julie
pointed me to Troell's most excellent essay on Time Travel --

http://www.hogwarts-library.net/reference/potterverse_faq.html#time_trav
el

I think if you read that, you might understand why he can't. Also...
keep in mind what Hermione tells Harry about changing time "Nobody can
change time, nobody". So really, the idea of the cure all as you present
it is no different whether Dumbledore is Ron or not -- Time travel
exists in the wizarding world, plain and simple, as we can see in PoA.
So if Harry and Hermione can save Buckbeak, why can't someone go back in
time and kill Voldie as a baby? This is a problem, Ron=DD theory aside.
Of course, it is really not a problem of all if you consider time travel
from the POV Troell presents it.