Time-Turner analysis

[Pat]

No: HPFGUIDX 112506

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Scott" <scraft at d...> wrote:
[snip

 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.

Pat here:

Well, that's precisely where I had the most trouble with POA.  Time 
travel, in any story, is always hard for me to follow.  And with 
this one, it always sounds right when I'm reading it, but then later 
when Harry explains it to Hermione and asks if that makes sense, she 
says "I don't know".  Which has always made me a bit curious about 
the whole thing.  If anyone understood what was going on it should 
have been Hermione since she'd been using the Time Turner all year.

I do think you have a point about JKR including this in the story--
we were supposed to read it and move on, but of course, we all like 
to analyze every detail to death.

The other thing is, someone tried to explain this to me before, that 
Harry sees himself because there are two time lines parallel to each 
other.  And by using the Time Turner he sees what is happening in 
both--or something like that.

I'm going now, my brain is once again befuddled by Time Turners--and 
I don't even want to think about Time in the Dept. of Mysteries.

Pat