DoM question. Why write about a device that can reverse aging.

[Kate]

No: HPFGUIDX 107659

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" <vmonte at y...> wrote:
> vmonte:
> 
> Just a question I have. Why would JKR write about a way that can 
> reverse time in people (the DE that turned into baby head DE)?
> 
> Is she planning on using this at the end of the series on someone?
> Will someone get another chance at a new life with a new family?
> 
> Or is there someone in the series that was time turned?   


When I read that passage I thought that it was a clue to Harry's 
initial survival.  Hermione tells Harry not to curse the baby head 
DE because "you can't hurt a baby!".  Harry thinks this is a strange 
thing from her to say at the time but doesn't have time to think 
about it seeing as they are running from the other DEs.  I think 
Miss Hermione knows more about Harry's first escape from Voldemorte 
than she has expressed so far.  I mean what would intrigue her 
curious nature more than the most unexplainable mystery of the WW 
(the boy who lived)?  I think she has researched possible 
explainations of Harry's survival and has found that if you use 
magic against an innocent baby bad things will happen to you.  I'm 
not trying to say that was all there was to the curse rebounding 
back onto V but I think the MoM scene was an allusion to Harry's 
attack as a small child.