[HPforGrownups] Re: Fishing for ideas

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No: HPFGUIDX 101684




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.


What I meant was that there is sometimes a tendency to use the time-travel device as a solution to *every*
problem.

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!

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.

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





Well, Phil, the thing is, several of us have seen that time plays a major role in these books.  In fact, it seems to be one of the only things that remains constant in each.  Each book contains an aspect of time.  Also, JKR has a habit of taking something from one book and re-using it in another.  If you take each of these CANON ideas and combine them, then we are just projecting on and using our interpretations of foreshadowing.  I hate to put it this way, but if you are uncomfortable with the use of time, then you are going to have quite a time <g> with the last two books!!

moonmyyst


		
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