Snape and DADA

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 112668

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!!!]<<


Romuluslupin: 
> 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).
 

SSSusan:
While I understand your presentation, RL, I'm afraid in one way it 
didn't help me. :-|  In JKR's version of TT, as we see it w/ H&H, 
they turned back 3 hours and **lived them again** in order to be, 
once again, in the Hospital Wing at midnight.  If a person TTs back 
to 1800 from 2004, how does s/he get up the next day and re-appear 
in 2004?  This would require an ability to *forward*-turn, too, 
rather than a requirement to complete the entire time frame between 
where one started and where one turned back.  In other words, in 
JKR's system (as we know it), if H&H turned back to 1800, wouldn't 
they have to live out the full 204 years to get back to 2004?

Oh--and Phi Beta Kappa is simply an academic-leadership-service 
honorary which is awarded to some students upon completion of their 
undergraduate college degree.

Siriusly Snapey Susan