[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore

[Kethryn]

No: HPFGUIDX 116480

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Juli replies:
Although time travel isn't *that* complicated, it would bring 
terrible consequences, why wouldn't DD just go back and fix things? 
like LV killing Cedric, or Sirius death? I don't believe he can 
manipulate time, I think he *sees* the future, not in a Trelawney 
kind of way, but someway. I recall in PoA, he told H&H exactly what 
to do, and what if (huge IF), he knew right from the start that they 
would need the time-turner to help Sirius? 

Juli


Kethryn now - 

Depending on the particular view of time turners that you are using, you cannot go back into time and change things.  Well, at least, most SciFi novels and movies agree, you can't change the big stuff.  According to every SciFi writer that played with the idea that I have read (other than Spider Robinson and Ray Bradbury) it is too hard to actually change anything major.  Even Spider Robinson had his time travelers only able to "see" from the future that there was something going down at "x" time but not the details therein.  Other writers have sent their characters back into time to have them change something only to discover that the past cannot be changed, only slightly influenced.  For example, Diana Galbadon sends Claire back to 1747 Scotland and she tries to get Prince Charles to stay at home and not hold the Second Uprising that almost destroyed Scotland.  Other than causing a lack of immediate funds for the Prince, Claire is not able to effect the outcome of that particular disaster...nor is she able to save her family from the war.

Harry and Hermione could set Buckbeak free because it was not a major thing.  Anything bigger than that and the time continuum would revolt against the user...or so it is theorized.

Kethryn who is kind of awed that she managed to work time continuum intelligently into a HP conversation.  Talk about mixing SciFi and fantasy.  

PS. I got an 80 on my calculus II test!!!!!!  Sorry, major cause for celebration there...




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