POA Prongs Patronus, for Alina and Yuiren

[debcip]

No: HPFGUIDX 100411

> debcip writes:
> 
> > Could someone please explain to me how Harry conjured the Prongs 
> > Patronus (as opposed to his father, which would have made more 
> > sense) when he was lying near dead on the bank with Sirius?  I 
> > didn't understand this when I read the book, and the movie has 
not 
> > helped either.
>  
Yuiren wrote:
> Well, James is dead, so he couldn't have done it.  That was not 
the Harry who 
> was with Sirius who conjured it.  That was the Harry who had gone 
back in 
> time with Hermione.  It's all about time travel.  He thought he 
> had seen his dad, but it had been himself in the future.


Thank you both; your answers illustrate exacly what I don't 
understand.  How can Harry, in "real time" (the first time) see 
himself across the water, when he didn't come back and do it yet?

Maybe I just don't understand time travel?

debcip