Ron as time-traveller---something that I don't think anybody thought of

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No: HPFGUIDX 89040

Eric wrote:
> Actually, I do like the "Ron Weasley, time-traveller, becomes Albus
> Dumbledore" theory (I disremember the acronym) but something I 
thought of
> does make it make a whole lot of sense.
> 
> Like this:  Ron Weasley, in Time-Track One, fights with and has to 
deal with
> an Evil Dark Wizard who makes V-mort look like a little old lady---
and his
> _sidekick,_ one Thomas Marvolo Riddle.  In a last desperate effort, 
he
> time-trips back, quite a long time, and takes the identity of one 
Albus
> Dumbledore, a recently-deceased wizard boy.  (This would not be 
hard in
> Victorian times---no IDs to worry about) This creates Time-Track 
Two.
> 
> As "Albus Dumbledore," he learns frantically, knowing that he has 
this
> menace to deal with in the future.  He manages to scotch it---but 
part of
> the price is that Tom Riddle escapes.  Maybe he de-magics the 
future Evil
> Dark Wizard in his cradle, or something...but has to let Tom slip.  
However,
> he doesn't think Tom, without his evil mentor, is much of a 
threat.  In
> Time-Track One, he was sort of like Wormtail to our 
Voldemort...."yes,
> master, right away, master, kick me a few good ones so that we know 
your
> boots fit right, master..."
> 
> Then, Tom comes to Hogwarts---and the only teacher that doesn't 
take to him
> is "Albus Dumbledore," nee Ron Weasley.  He keeps a careful watch 
on Young
> Tom, but he's already changed history enough that Young Tom is able 
to open
> the Chamber of Secrets (which Ron Weasley/Albus Dumbledore had 
thought was
> mythical, along with the rest of the WW) and release the basilisk.  
While he
> can't bring Myrtle back to life, or persuade that idiot Armando 
Dippet to at
> least examine the body for signs of an Acromantula attack, he can 
and does
> keep a sharp eye on Young Tom, knowing what he was capable of on 
Time-Track
> One, but still underestimating him.  And then Young Tom leaves 
Hogwarts,
> loaded down with scholastic honors, and despite his best efforts, 
Ron/Albus
> loses track of him...until he surfaces as Lord Voldemort, who, for 
all his
> evil, isn't _as_ evil or as much of a threat as the Evil Dark 
Wizard Ron was
> fighting in Time-Track One.  (Confused, yet?  I hope not---time-
travel's a
> subject that gives _me_ headaches, when I start thinking about 
alternate
> time-tracks and alternate outcomes).
> 
> So-o-o, Ron/Albus now has Lord Voldemort to deal with, and he 
learns quickly
> that even without his now-erased-from-history evil mentor, 
Voldemort's a
> formidable foe.  While he knows _some_ things, he doesn't know 
everything,
> and he's changed history enough that his foreknowledge isn't much 
help any
> more.  \
> 
> Hoping this will stir up some discussion,
> 
> Eric


Neri answers:

Welcome to the time-travel squad, Eric!

Your suggestion is an imaginative version of the different histories 
series (see the original post). The problem with it is that if young 
Ron in our history will travel to the past at all to become DD (which 
is actually not necessary in your version, because our DD is another 
Ron, coming from a different history), then he will go to a yet a 
third history, and his actions will not affect the current history. 
You can fix this by sending young Ron to the history where DD is 
coming from, thus closing the loop and having a version of the Double 
Loop Ploy. 

Kind of lending a whole new meaning to the History of Magic subject. 
I always felt Prof. Binns doesn't teach it properly.

Neri