POA Prongs Patronus - getting time travel terms right.

[Susan]

No: HPFGUIDX 100557

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nkafkafi" <nkafkafi at y...> 
wrote:
> > Susan:
> > Similar to this is the movie *Timeline*.  For history to be 
> correct, 
> > they _have_ to go back.  Won't explain any more, but if you see 
the 
> > movie, it's easy to make the comparison to time travel in PoA.
> 
> Neri:
> Slightly OT but I like to get my time-travel terms correct (it's 
> complicated enough as it is...). The time travel in "Timeline" was 
> actually of a different type, simpler than the POA type. 
> In "Timeline" it was a fixed wormhole. This means that the past in 
> the other side of the wormhole is synchronized with the present. 
When 
> an hour passes in the present, an hour had also passed in the other 
> side of the wormhole. Very much like different time zones. In the 
> other side it is always (say) 754 years, 96 days, 5 hours, 32 
minutes 
> and 13 seconds before the present, and you can only go to this 
> (changing) time.
> 
> In contrast, in the POA time travel you can choose how many hours 
> into the past you want to go, and you can even go there more than 
> once, so there might be even more copies of yourself around. 
Hermione 
> was actually doing this. According to Ron reading her schedule in 
the 
> first day of school, she had THREE classes at the same time, so she 
> actually was in three places, not just two, at the same time.
> 
> But you are right about your point. In both these methods of time 
> travel, the time traveler must go back in order for the "correct" 
> history to happen.
> 
> Neri

Yeah, that last part's the point.  The people in the movie, just like 
H/H, have to go back so history will be correct.  I thought that's 
why the wormhole was there in the first place.  And btw, Gerard 
Butler, (a Scot) who played Marek in the movie was MY first choice 
for the role of Sirius Black. ;-)
Susan