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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