Time-Turner analysis

[Vicky Gwosdz]

No: HPFGUIDX 112501

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Scott" <scraft at d...> wrote:
> I am suprised that no one has come up with this yet, but here it 
> goes.  In PoA, if the person who cast the patronus was Harry then 
he 
> would of have to survive by other means the first time, because the 
> stag chased the Dementors away.  So the question becomes what would 
> have happened to Harry if the stag did not chase the Dementors 
away?  
> Would they have given Harry the Kiss or would they have left him 
> alone after they kissed Sirius.  When JKR put this in the book, I 
> don't believe at the time she knew that it was going to be analysed 
> so deeply.  I think that we were supposed to look at it like "Oh 
that 
> was Harry who cast the Patronus Stag" and then move on with the 
story.

I think that's the whole issue of going back in time 
and "interfering" with the future (or the present of your future 
self).  By doing so, you create a sort of a vicious time-circle in 
which both actions depend on one another.  (In the same sense as the 
chicken and the egg discussion).  

Just my 2 cts