[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore

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No: HPFGUIDX 116495

In a message dated 10/26/2004 2:23:04 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
kethryn at wulfkub.com writes:
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).
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Chancie:
Ok. Just a few questions then.  Where in cannon does it state major events in 
history are un-changeable?  I agree, as to why hasn't Harry or Dumbledore 
gone back in time to change the past and save Lily and James?  But just because 
that hasn't happend (IMHO) doesn't translate into "CAN'T"!  I have speculated 
before that it's possible that perhaps that will happen in the end.  Harry 
could go back in time and defeat Voldemort before he starts ruining everything.  
Like maybe when Tom Riddle is still in school, and fight him before he can open 
the chamber of secrets, and frame Hagrid for it.  If ANYONE has any rock hard 
cannon PROOF that events in the WW can't be changed, PLEASE send it my way.  
Still in my way of thinking, if you can kill yourself, to change time line 
events, what exactly would stop you from killing others (ie. VOLDEMORT) thus 
changing events.  Example, if Harry went back in time, and killed himself as an 
infant (before Voldemort found the Potters) then he never would have been "the 
boy who lived"!  Hows that for a major timeline event change????

Chancie~who's very glad Kethryn didn't think she was being rude, and loves a 
good debate!


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