[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore

[Kethryn]

No: HPFGUIDX 116491

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Chancie:

*Sigh*, Actually if you follow the cannon, it does state that major events 
can be changed!  <snip> Hermione says they can't 
be seen because wizards have killed their past or future selves because the got 
confused and thought some sort of black magic was going on (it would be 
impossible to kill your past self if you couldn't change time, because your future 
self would not exist!!!!!).  Hermione is warned to "not change time" she 
wouldn't be warned of this if it weren't possible!!!!!  Also we need to remember 
this is  JO ROWLING's story, no one elses!  She takes what she want's of things 
and turns it in to what she wants them to be! ( Prime example being Lupin is 
only a Werewolf when the moon light shines on him, not durring the entire full 
moon period as in other legends.)  

Chancie~ who hopes she didn't come off as rude( appologies if I did, It 
wasn't inteneded!!) and feels another TT discussion is going to turn up pretty soon!

Kethryn -

Well, I would say that going back into time and killing yourself is pretty drastic but actually that is fairly minor stuff.  The fate of one person and all.  And, as far as I understand it, you could actually go back and kill yourself because you are outside of that particular time continuum (think of it like parallel universes...it gets a lot easier to deal with that way).  Anyway, the point is, it sucks for you but it's not exactly world altering stuff.  Say, for example, that you went back in time to kill yourself because you invented this horrible thing that caused millions of deaths.  So now you are dead but back in your own time and the thing that you killed yourself over gets invented anyway; it was too big for you to stop it. 

So, I guess what I am trying to say is that, while it is canon that you can change minor events, it is not canon (not as I read it) that you can change the events that have the weight of history behind them.  If the time turner did allow for major events to be changed, why didn't Harry wrest the time turner from Hermione's neck and go rescue his parents?  Hell, for that matter, why hasn't Dumbledore?  If they tried, I would be willing to bet money that they would rescue them only to have Lily and James die from a car wreck, or something along those lines, that self same day (or close to it).

Kethryn who never thought for a second that Chancie was being rude and just thinks that we have different takes on the same reading!

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