BOOK 6 ANNOUNCEMENT ON JKR WEBSITE

[Debra]

No: HPFGUIDX 103361

> Wanda:
> I think that Book 6 will involved 
> time travel, as so many others have 
> opined, and that Harry will travel 
> back in time to meet Tom Riddle, 
> in order to stop him before he 
> starts his journey to become Voldemort.  
> Maybe he'll try to kill him, maybe 
> he'll just try to interfere with him, 
> or maybe he'll try to reform him; but 
> whatever happens, Harry is going to 
> try to stop Tom from becoming 
> Voldemort.

Debra:
It was bothering me for a long time why I couldn't come up with a 
counter-argument for this, but a friend of mine just jogged my memory.

Let's think this through for a second. How much would change if Harry 
went back in time to kill and/or stop VDM? Because, as Hermione said, 
you have to be very careful in time travel.

The following are possible "pros" to the time-travel bit:
1. Harry would no longer bear the burden of fame and the title 
of "the boy who lived".
2. His parents and Sirius would still be alive.
3. Sirius would be a free man

The following are possible "cons":
1. Hermione wouldn't be his friend. They became friends after the 
troll incident, which would never have happened if Quirrel hadn't 
been trying to buy time so he could take a look at the obstacles 
guarding the Stone.

Even though the "pros" outweigh the "cons" that I can think of right 
now, I don't think JKR would have picked the troll incident as the 
thing that brought them together if she had planned all along for it 
to be negated later in the series. She fought for that scene because 
she needed something big to bring them together, not because she 
needed something reversible.

Debra