Ron=DD?

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 94432

Kia wrote: 
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....) 

vmonte responds:
I'm making up this whole scenario to illustrate my point (I know that 
I may be completely wrong about how time travel works but why time 
travel in the first place if you don't want to change events?)

Lets say that Ron=DD.  Something in the future is going to happen to 
Ron to blast him into the past.  Ron then assumes a new identity: 
Dumbledore. Because DD is really Ron he knows that in the future his 
friend Harry will be born and Voldemort will try to kill him and his 
family.  DD tries to make sure this doesn't happen again, so in this 
timeline he assigns Sirius as their keeper (the first time around the 
Potters may not have had any keeper/protector). But for whatever 
reason, Sirius decides to change the keeper to Peter. (DD has no idea 
about what Sirius has done.) Peter is bad, and the Potters are killed 
again. 

DD also knows (because he was once Ron) that Harry will be very upset 
when Sirius gets killed.  So DD saves Sirius's life by having 
Hermione and Harry time travel to save him (and Buckbeak). 
DD is happy -- he has saved Sirius (the first time around Sirius 
died).  But Sirius is Sirius and he is not a careful person. He 
starts putting himself in danger. DD starts to worry again. So when 
he has the chance he forces Sirius stay at Order headquarters.  But 
Sirius is Sirius and he doesn't like being trapped, and he also feels 
badly that he isn't helping the Order (Snape even pushes Sirius more 
by basically calling him a coward--and people don't think that Snape 
manipulates people?!). 
So, Sirius leaves Headquarters -- and is killed again!!!

DD is learning that he cannot always change fate.  Sirius was going 
to die no matter what -- because Sirius was Sirius.

vmonte