Ron=DD?

[Kia]

No: HPFGUIDX 94401

vmonte responds:

>If time is not fixed and events can change the timeline, as 
>Hermione
>implies, then Dumbledore may not know certain events 
>because they
>unfolded differently the first time around. I hope I'm clear!


That's not possible. Time-travel doesn't seem to work like that in 
the HP novels. Everything happens the way it happened the first 
time, because the first time is already the second time.  There is 
no first time or last time; time-travel is just the existence of a 
doppelganger in what he perceives to be the past, but which is 
still the present to his "original."  For example, Harry and 
Hermione don't alter the past in PoA, because they had already 
saved Buckbeak and Sirius, they just didn't know it, because they 
hadn't done yet. (What a sentence....) 

Hermione doesn't use the time-turner to go back to the Charms 
lesson, she missed, because she has already missed it.

The events cannot have unfolded differently the "first time", 
because that would go against the idea of time-travel in HP. 
According to logic Ron would be the clueless partner in that 
time-travel duality and not Dumbledore. Everything Ron knows, 
Dumbledore knows, too. 

Yes, you might suggest that the R=DD theory alters the current 
modus operandi of time-travel in HP, but the implications of that 
one are horrible, because it would always open the door to 
some random death eater going back into Harry's past 
(post-happy ending) and altering the story, we witnessed, into 
some parody of it.

Currently it is only possible for Voldemort to go back in time and 
get the Philosopher's Stone before Flamel destroyed, but it isn't 
possible for Voldemort to go back and tell his old self to give 
some random DE the job of killing Baby Harry.

If DD's knowledge isn't Ron's - and the events have been altered 
with the help of time-travel - then this is possible and a can of 
plotholes will be open.


Kia