Snape and DADA

[persephone_kore]

No: HPFGUIDX 112185

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman"
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
> Magda:
> > Lately though I've been wondering about something: wouldn't it be a
> > total kick if Harry has to time-turner 25 years into the past 
> > because it's actually Harry and not James who pulls Snape out of 
> > the tunnel and saves him from a werewolf?  Because Snape is needed 
> > in the future for some potions work or something?
> 
> 
> SSSusan:
> I have *such* a hard time w/ time-turning, that I hesitate to even 
> ask this, but....  Is it the general consensus that a person can TT 
> to a moment *before* he was even born **and then perform some action 
> which changes events**?  Not like in PoA, when H/H simply time-turn 
> to a point w/in the same day?  Could Harry go back 25 years, to when 
> he was "minus-10"??
> 
> Siriusly Snapey Susan

Well, I don't see why, if you can go back in time at all, you'd be
restricted to times you'd actually been to previously unless you were
actually stuck sharing your own consciousness at the time -- which
isn't the case.

Whether he could perform an action which changes events is quite
irrelevant, as if Harry saved Snape he would of course *always* have
been the one who saved Snape, just as he was of course *always* the
one who cast the Patronus that chased the Dementors away. JKR doesn't
actually do the changing-events variety of time travel -- it might
look that way, but only because the reader and characters didn't have
all the facts the first time around.

PK