Teenage Harry goes back in time to Godric's Hollow

[antoshachekhonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 100422

> > vmonte:
> <Snip>
> > Here my point --
> > Harry realizes that he was there (as a child and as an 18 year old).
> > He goes back but cannot save Lily from death. (Snape is also there 
> > but he is one of the bad guys.) Eighteen year old Harry is killed 
> > there--because he saves Snape's life.  Snape owes Harry. Because 
> > Harry looks like James, people assume that it is him in the 
> rubble.  Snape carries Harry away and somehow puts a stopper on his 
> death.  
>  
> > Jospehine wrote:
> > Dream or not I actually really like this idea! It would be a twist 
> on  the whole idea we have of what really happened at Godric's 
> Hollow...
> >  Time travel has appeared once, why not again!? JKR does like to be 
> > clever and complex with her stories, and I am expecting the time 
> > turners seen in the MOM to reappear.
> 
> 
> Mandy here:
> I too like it, and would like to add the idea that perhaps James 
> wasn't there at all, it was TimeTurner/Harry?  
> 
> Could James have been killed elsewhere? 
> Was that why Lupin was surprised to here Harry could hear James' 
> voice?  
> It could add to Sirius and Remus guilt if they thought that their 
> best friends wife and child were somehow left alone to deal with LV.
> and, as you say vmonte it would explane Snapes reluctant need to keep 
> Harry alive.
> 
> Just some random thoughts, Mandy

Antosha:

The more I think about this idea, the more thought-provoking it is. There are all sorts of 
loose ends to tie up--mostly, what happened to James--but....

It's funny, I was playing Harry-Potter-make-believe with my six year old a month or two 
ago (it's her favorite thing to do), and we ended up playing this game where Harry and 
Hermione kept going back in time to meet Young!Sirius, Lily and James. That night, after 
she went to bed, the ideas raised by that game kept buzzing in my head, to the point 
where I ended up writing a fanfiction story in which Harry, on a mission to Little 
Hangleton, some five years or so before his birth, accidentally runs into Lily and--having 
been enjoined not to reveal the future--can only think to tell Lily that what she's going to 
try in GH after James tells her to get out will work, knowing that she will only understand 
once she is in that moment. 

To quote Chief O'Brien, I hate temporal mechanics.

But I have to say, I like this idea of vmonte's a lot.

It would be typical of JKR to use time travel as a plot gimmick once, and then have it return 
in a much more profound form later in the series.