Not changing events at GH but keeping them the same. Was: Harry at GH

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No: HPFGUIDX 100612

I wrote:
> > And Harry could not use a time-turner to go back and save his 
> parents. BUT he COULD use it to go back and come to find out that he 
> WAS at GH that night and that his being there  made things happen as 
> they did. (anyone's head hurting yet?)
> 
> 
> Mandy wrote:
> 
> The Time Turner will be used, not to change time, but to ensure it 
> happens the same way.  Harry survived Godrick's Hollow because he was 
> there as Timeturner/Harry and helped to keep himself alive.   

How would Harry be able to keep himself alive, other than to warn/ask Lily to sacrifice 
herself for him?

> 
> But surly the question is why? Why send Harry back to Godricks Hollow 
> to keep himself alive into adulthood to face Voldemort in the 
> future?  Other than keeping Harry alive, which is important, but what 
> benefit is there to the over all story line? Other than it being 
> rather fun?  How will it affect Harry finally vanquishing 
> Voldemort?   
> 
> Is DD hoping that, in the looping of time back over itself, that one 
> time through TimeTurner/Harry will be successful in defeating 
> Voldemort completely at Godrick's Hollow and not just reducing him to 
> dust?  Practice makes perfect right? But if Harry is successful in 
> leaving himself alive as a baby with the scar, an orphan and famous 
> but with all threat of Voldemort gone won't we have a paradox?  All 
> other events would still be unchanged Sirius would still be wrongly 
> imprisoned in Azkaban, Snape still a traitor to the DE?    Is there 
> some event inside this circle of looping time that has to be 
> changed?  But again if we start changing things inside the loop we 
> again end up with a paradox. OK, now my head is aching!  
> 
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> 
> I love this whole Harry in Godrick's Hollow idea, but how and can it 
> be used to further the saga, and not just be an interesting 
> interlude?  
> 
> Am I making any sense?  Any thoughts?
> 
> Cheers Mandy, who's just had a horrible thought, what if Harry is 
> stuck in this repeating looping time scenario, where every time he 
> grows up DD hopes that Harry is strong enough to finally kill 
> Voldemort, but every time Harry fails at Godrick's Hollow, he is 
> doomed to go back and relive his miserable life over and over and 
> over again until he is successful.   Now that's a vision of Hell.  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers Mandy


This isn't how i had thought that scenario would go. I thought Harry would go back, 
thinking he could somehow save his parents, then get there and realize he has to cause 
things to happen as they already did, then come back in time to fight Lord Thingy with 
some new insight that the Time-traveling has given him. But what that insight might be, 
only God (and JKR) knows...

Gorda