Timetravel again? Was: Re: Dumbledore

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No: HPFGUIDX 116507


> 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????
> 



Alla:

Hi, Chancie. Here is my take on the situation. I also don't think 
that there is any proof that major events in canon are not 
changeable, BUT as I said in the previous post, I think that the 
only events,which Dumbledore will ALLOW to change, are the ones, 
where supposed change already happened on the timeline.

Don't ask me how Dumbledore knows about it. I don't have an answer, 
I suspect that somehow he can move backwards and ofrward on the 
timeline.l Has he already been in the future and came back ? I don't 
know.

Again, Buckbeack did not die the FIRST time, that is why Harry and 
Hermione were able to save him.

I suspect that something already happened in the past differently 
than we readers think it happened due to the time travel. Don't ask 
me about time paradox, I think more sophisticated time-travel 
theorists would be able to explain that.

I used to dislike another introduction of the time -travel as 
possible solution to one of the mysteries, but the more I think 
about it, the more I think that it could be done elegantly. After 
all, I LOVED the PoA ending.