POA Prongs Patronus, for Alina and Yuiren

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No: HPFGUIDX 100501

In a message dated 06/08/2004 2:15:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, debcip 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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Jo Ann:

I would not presume to speak for Alina, Yuiren or Maria, and I apologize for 
butting in.  But I made up a graphic that might help:

http://www.geocities.com/lady_brinna/fanfiction/TimeTurn.html

Hope it doesn't just make things worse...

Also, re. your later question:

> Now you're telling me that Buckbeak never died?  What about their 
mission to save more than one innocent life?

> You have to excuse me, I am a scientist. This is a little too 
abstract for me.  How do you know all of this?

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Jo Ann:

I believe Dumbledore was already aware that Harry and Hermione had gone (were 
going) back in time and that Buckbeak never died in the first place.  He'd 
already been there to see that Buckbeak had escaped, and being Dumbledore, he 
seems to be more aware than most of what people around Hogwarts are up to...

Time travel, though never actually accomplished in Real Life, has been a 
staple in science fiction/fantasy for as long as the genre has existed (and I 
believe it's received some serious attention from quantum physicists in recent 
years, as well.)  Theories for how it would work have been thought up, dissected 
and analyzed countless times by hundreds, if not thousands of people.  A 
search of Google should turn up any number of variations, some more plausible than 
others.

Jo Ann


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