Snape and DADA

[romuluslupin1]

No: HPFGUIDX 112653

> SSSusan wrote
> 
 How could time [1800, 1974, 
> whatever] already have happened **and** this individual "simply 
had 
> not, from their own personal, subjective point of view, *done* it 
> yet" *if* they did something important in 1800 or 1974??  How 
could 
> they have done it and also not yet know that they'd done it?
> 
> [I'm sure many of you are just shaking your heads at me, 
> saying, "Nope, there's no hope for THAT one."  But surely there's 
at 
> least one other person out there who can't quite grasp this!?  
Damn--
> I'm Phi Beta Kappa, but I can't "get" time travel!!!]

I'm sure someone else has already answered this, but I'll try to put 
in my 2 cents.
When you time turn, your life followas a strange pattern, instead of 
going 1970, 71, 72.... 2003, 2004 etc, it goes 1970, 71, 72.... 
2003, 1800, 1801 etc. In *your* life, 1800 comes after 2003, instead 
of 2004, so you haven't experienced it yet, you don't know what 
*you* did it, but in *the world's* experience 1800 happened way 
before 2003, it's past, it's history and you know of it. Let me make 
an example here. Let's say tomorrow you decide to time turn back to 
the 18th century. You find yourself in Skye and help Bonnie Prince 
Charlie escape disguised as a woman. Today, you don't know *you* did 
it, but you know *of* the fact, because it can be found in history 
books. I hope that helps.

Romulus Lupin who wonders what a Phi Beta Kappa might be (apart from 
letters of the Greek alphabet, but somehow I guess that's not what 
you meant :o).

Now, let