Ron=DD?

[Kia]

No: HPFGUIDX 94437

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?)

To be in the same place twice. I am not sure whether it is even 
canonically possible to change events in HP by time-travelling.

See if  an event only happens once, it cannot be altered.

See, if this scenario actually happened:

>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.

it would require the timeline to change everytime it happens. 
Ron!DD would require a reason not to assign anyone as the 
Potters' secret keeper the first time around. He would then need 
a reason to make Sirius the Secret Keeper and in the 
subsequent run of the events, he would probably try to get rid of 
Pettigrew before Sirius can give him the keeper job. And if that 
doesn't work, he will do something else.

Add a few additional scenarios and maybe somewhere down 
the line DD succeeds, but subsequently Ron never becomes 
Dumbledore and history is altered again, until the whole 
Universe explodes in the some kind of time-space paradox, 
when DD alternatively creates and destroys his own existence.

See that's the problem when it comes all down to it. Time-travel 
can mess up the logic of any novel. Introducing the idea that 
there once was a different timeline, begs the question if there 
will be a new time-line that renders the current time-line 
inconsequential. And the whole story becomes fairly moot. It 
would be the last thing I would advice any author to have in their 
books unless they plan to write about time-travel paradoxes. 
(And Rowling isn't writing that.)


I would buy other explanations on why DD didn't help Sirius, 
allowed the Potter murder etc... but that Ron will do that in an 
alternative past is not a good idea.

Of course the real question is what could DD!Ron change as 
opposed to just!DD or just!Ron? Why is it necessary for 
Dumbledore to be Ron *in the future*? 



Kia