Time-Turning as a Cure-All

[frost_indri]

No: HPFGUIDX 88627

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Robert Jones" 
<jones.r.h.j at w...> wrote:
> 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.

I agree.  Ron=Dumbeldore would be too easy an ending and, really a 
pathetic cop-out. In addition, to make it work you have to make the 
plot far more twisted and complicated that JKR writes.  She likes to 
write in layers, and she likes things to be as complicated as life,  
but it still isn't as knotted as a time traveller changing the past 
would be. In addition, you have the butterfly effect.  By changing 
even one little thing, you will change the course of history greatly 
and irrevocably. By merely existing and with the knowledge he has, Ron 
would just... well, the story would be impossible by now. 
  
  Anyhow, I don't suppose Ron would be the type to just let Tom 
frame Hagrid for the Chamber of Secrets when he knows who is really 
at fault.  Nor does he seem the type to let someone die over it.

There's my two Cents.  

Frost