Time travel is dangerous (part 2)
vmonte
vmonte at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 16 05:03:39 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 88866
Neri wrote:
As my test case I use the Ron=DD theory, which is discussed as part
of the knight2king theory (read all about it in
http://www.knight2king.net , hoping I got the link right this time).
JKR can save herself from paradox by devising just two histories.
This may be termed the Double Loop Ploy (DLP): Ron travels 130 years
into the past, and becomes DD. He does everything he can to prevent
LV rise to power, and succeeds, but this causes an unexpected, tragic
turn of events. Say, in this history DD fails to defeat Grindelwald,
so there is a war all over again, only a different war with another
Bad Guy. Somehow, a Ron is born in this history too, and this Ron is
also, somehow, transported to the past. Note that this is a different
Ron (call him Ron-2). He must be different because he has a different
history, H-2. In fact, it might not even be Ron this time around.
vmonte wrote:
Yes, I sort of understand your idea that there could be more than one
timeline going on (I don't even want to begin thinking about this
idea). I don't know if time travel, Ron=DD, is the right answer to
why DD seems to know more than he should, but I do think that it is
possible, and there are many clues pointing in that direction.
Of course, he could just be a (real) Seer who is subtly trying to
manipultate history.
One thing I don't believe is that the time-line is
fixed /unchangeable. It is very obvious that DD (at different times)
manipulates the characters in the books (yes, like chess pieces).
(Many fans have pointed to the fact that DD is almost playing puppet
master with the children.)
I can reconcile DD's manipulation of the time-line, if his
transportation back into time was/is accidental. (I cannot blame
someone for trying to change history if they are trying to save
lives, blah blah etc.)
I do think that if time-travel is involved at all it will ultimately
show that people must take responsibility for their actions. Time-
travel is an easy fix! (I completely understand why fans of the books
would feel cheated if in the end no one really had free choice/free
will.)
I believe DD will come to realize that time-line meddling never
really changes history, not because it is the law of the time-line
continuum, but because people have free will, and no matter how much
you try to protect loved ones they are the ones who should be in
charge of their own destiny, blah blah etc.
Meddling may only delay what will eventually happen anyway.
I think DD was trying to save Sirius (change history) when he had
Hermione and Harry time-travel with Buckbeak, and when he forced
Sirius to remaine at OOTP headquarters--in the end DD only ended up
delaying Sirius's death.
Finally, no one really knows how the books are going to end (except
JKR), but I think that if DD=Ron via time-travel, or DD is a Seer,
Rowling will ultimately remark that people need to be accountable for
their actions. Time-travel is like the Mirror of Erised. You can
either live in fantasy, never accepting what life has given you, or
you can make the best of it that you can.
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