[HPforGrownups] Re: POA Prongs Patronus, for Alina and Yuiren

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 100454

In a message dated 6/8/2004 12:33:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
debcip at yahoo.com writes:
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?
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Sherrie here:

Because it HAD happened already.  (As Lazarus Long points out, the English 
language doesn't have tenses designed to handle time travel.)  

I'm not entirely sure I can explain it, really - but in going back in time, 
Harry & Hermione became part of the timestream at that earlier point in time.  
Nothing really happened twice - it all happened ONCE, as an organic whole, of 
which both Past!HarryHermione and Future!HarryHermione were part.  

:::sigh::: Oh, darn - it all seems so clear when Heinlein explains it...

Sherrie


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