Ron=DD?

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No: HPFGUIDX 94333

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Helen R. Granberry" <helen at o...> wrote:
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> 
> But then, why would Prof. Marchbanks remember it two years before it
> happened? Sorry 
> for being obtuse...
> 
> Antosha
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> Ron goes back in time. He takes his NEWTS in the PAST, when Professor
> Marchbanks was young. 
> 
> For better understanding, check the timeline here:
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> http://www.livejournal.com/community/unplottables/5231.html 
> 
> And... check out http://www.knight2king.net :)

Ah! Thank you for the link. Still not sure if I buy it--as one of the posters on the 
livejournal community said (quoting Chief O'Brien), "I hate temporal mechanics."

It seems odd that DD wouldn't even examine the possibility of tipping 'himself' (that is, 
Ron) off, thereby changing the timeflow. We know he's willing to do it--he sent Harry and 
Hermione back with the Time Turner in PoA to rescue Sirius and Buckbeak. Also, why take 
the name Dumbledore in the first place? And do we imagine that one of Ron's brothers 
goes back to become the strange, goat-connected, Hog's Head-connected Aberforth? The 
two descriptions of Aberforth don't match any of Ron's brothers, all of whom, we are quite 
assured, can read.

I'm sure that time travel will play a large role in one or both of the last books. And I'm just 
as certain that we'll find out something surprising about DD's connection to Harry. I'm just 
not sold that this is the form it will take.