[HPforGrownups] Re: Teenage Harry goes back in time to Godric's Hollow

[Robert A. Rosenberg]

No: HPFGUIDX 100513

At 01:40 +0000 on 06/09/2004, vmonte wrote about [HPforGrownups] Re: 
Teenage Harry goes back in time to Godr:

>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.

Depending on how you define the rules of time travel in the 
Porterverse, it might now be so much a choice but a necessity for him 
to go back. The "rules" as shown in the movie and the book are of a 
world where events are fixed and must occur. Harry saving himself at 
the lake is a good example. Since he was saved by a later himself, he 
had to perform the saving from the other side or he would cease to 
exist. The same applies to GH. If his intervention from the future 
set in motion the events at GH, he MUST go back to intervene again. 
Failure to do so would mean his death as a baby at GH and the success 
of LV at that time. I can see a scenario where he has defeated LV in 
the present (as of book 7) and then DD tells him that he must go back 
in time to let LV kill him at GH so everything occurs as it did.