Fishing for ideas

[Phil Boswell]

No: HPFGUIDX 101677

Phil wrote:
>> A personal thing, perhaps, but I am getting rather tired of people
>> trying to spatchcock their own favourite SF-nal device (time
>> travel in this instance) into the Harry Potter books no matter 
>> whether it makes any sense at all.

vmonte responds: 
> No offense but many of the posts on this site are not based on
> canon evidence. AND JKR inserted the possibility of time-travel into 
> the series, not me, or anyone else. 

Sorry, not what I meant. What I meant was that there is sometimes a
tendency to use the time-travel device as a solution to *every*
problem.

<sarcasm style="obvious">
How come Dumbledore knows more than anyone else? Must be a
time-travelling thing. OK, so how can we spatchcock time-travel into
*this* discussion? Right, let's pretend DD is actually Ron travelled
back in time!

Can't figure out what happened in Godric's Hollow? Must be a
time-travelling thing. OK, so how can we spatchcock time-travel into
*this* discussion? Right, let's pretend Harry must have travelled back
in time to watch his parents getting smithereened!
</sarcasm>

The annoying thing is that there's plenty of *good* discussion, but
there's only so much time in the day one can devote to reading this
group :-( and they get kind of drowned in the noise.

> Also, there are a lot of discussions going on this site. I'm sure 
> you can find one that is to your liking.

Several, but there are things in RL I'm supposed to be doing :-)
-- 
Phil