Harry at GH & Kloves on Lupin's feelings towards Lily

[Susan]

No: HPFGUIDX 100421

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" <vmonte at y...> wrote:
> Arya wrote:
> Hmm, you've got me thinking now.... Say Harry goes back in time and
> ends up defeating Voldemort for good before any Potters are killed 
and
> changes his own timeline so that he grows up completely normal, with
> both parents and in a world free of Voldemort (and without a scar)?
> 
> 
> vmonte responds:
> 
> I don't think that Harry is going to be able to save his parents. 
In 
> fact, I think that Hermione's warning in PoA that bad things have 
> happened to wizards that have meddled with time will more than 
likely 
> happen to Harry. (Remember my post was a response to a dream I had, 
I 
> have no idea if this action will even take place.)
> 
> If Harry does go back, I think that things are not going to work 
out 
> the way he plans.  What if seeing 18 year old Harry is the reason 
> that Lily ultimately decides to sacrifice her own life to save him 
as 
> a baby? 
> 
> Let's say that Harry goes back but does not tell his mom who he is. 
> Who is to say that his mom wouldn't figure it out anyway.  She sees 
> someone who looks like James and has her eyes... 
> 
> And What if Harry bumps into unexpected people on the way.  What 
> would they make of him?  Would they think he was a DE? 
> 
> Going back would be a bad idea all the way around.  But 
> unfortunately, if given the means and opportunity, it's definitely 
> something Harry would do. 
> 
> Or come to think of it, Neville has just as much to gain by going 
> back as Harry does.
> 
Susan (teilani):
Not that I don't secretly wish for this to happen, but I just don't 
see how it's possible!  At least, not with specifically a time-
turner.  How many times would you have to turn the thing just to 
hopefully arrive at the same spot?  Plus, if it was that easy to do, 
why didn't Harry just get a time-turner and flip it around a few 
times so that he could at least prevent Sirius' death?  That would 
have been much easier to do, had Harry done it immediately.  Plus, 
H/H used it to save him once, why not again?  I think if time 
travel's going to play a major role in the next two books, it will 
probably be through a different magical device/spell, rather than a 
time-turner, which seems to be for short trips rather than long ones.

Susan, who really does hope that Harry has a happy ending.