[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore

[Kethryn]

No: HPFGUIDX 116505

<snipped my own comments again>

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!


Kethryn now -

ARGH!!!  I did it AGAIN!  Sorry, I did the anti-religious argument...we haven't seen it done, therefore it must not exist.  *Smacks self in head.*  You are right, of course, no where actually in the canon (unless you take the character's lack of action in this particular instance as canon) does it say that (major) history cannot be changed.  But neither does it say that(major) history can be changed.  In the absence of a positive, the answer must be negative...when the answer could bloody well be "french fries" (neither positive nor negative).  *bangs head on the desk*

So, my rock hard proof is neither a rock nor all that hard...it just seems to me that if you have the power to stop Voldemort from rising to power and all it takes is a little trip down memory lane, then shouldn't you hop to?  Of course, it would dramatically end the series and be a cop out, IMHO.

Kethryn who loves a good debate as well and is sorry that her agnosticism infected her post.

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