[HPforGrownups] Re: Not changing events at GH but keeping them the same. Was: Harry at GH

[Barbara D. Poland-Waters]

No: HPFGUIDX 100653

From: K G [mailto:moonmyyst13 at yahoo.com]

Gorda:
> 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...

Okay... let me see if I can make everyone's head hurt a little more.
Suppose it is not to save his parents but has something to do with the
Dursleys and how DD was able to convince them to take in baby Harry.<<<

I just read the part of PoA where Harry is taking fending-off-dementor
lessons. It doesn't say he heard James when he was under the thrall of the
boggart/dementor, it says he heard a man's voice. And then when Lupin asks
"You heard James?" with a funny sound in his voice, I thought, hmm, maybe he
didn't hear James because he couldn't hear James. Maybe he heard himself
(Harry as an adult) as people have speculated, maybe James somehow escaped
or wasn't there when Lily was attacked. Maybe the payoff at the end of the
series is Harry being reunited with his father, who has long been in hiding
from V. Maybe the adult Harry does go back and do something to save Lily and
himself as a baby and at that time finds out James wasn't killed after all.

I'm not sure if there's anything in canon to support this theory or if
anything has been mentioned that confirms that James was definitely killed
and/or that Harry definitely heard him. If you can think of anything, feel
free to dispute my theory.

Barbara, playing "what if" along with everyone else
bd-bear