[HPforGrownups] Re: Knight2King--Hermione is McGonagall

[Taryn Kimel]

No: HPFGUIDX 88634

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Robert Jones" 
<jones.r.h.j at w...> wrote:
> I just want to register my protest of the use of time travel as a 
> major plot device.  JKR used it once in POA to good effect, but to 
> make it part of the solution at the end of the series is a 
different 
> matter.  
> 
> <snip>

Julie:
I read the essay and thought it was fascinating.  
<snip>
However, making these two 
main student characters the same people as two main teacher 
characters violates one of the main rules of using the time 
turner...allowing your future self to be seen by your past/present 
self, even if the self is diguised.  

Taryn:
But that isn't a "if you see yourself you'll ruin the space-time continuum" kind of rule. It's a "you might just kill yourself thinking it was Dark Magic" kind of rule. By the time Ron would grow up into Dumbledore, there's no chance of young Ron mistaking DD for himself. >_> After all, Harry saw himself across the lake in PoA and nothing was ruined because of it.

Then again, I adore the REDHEAD ALWAYS theory, but I don't think it's going to happen. (Not as much of a fan of Hermione going back with him, which seems a bit overkill to me.)

--Taryn

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