[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR's site up-date - Rumours Section

[Troels Forchhammer]

No: HPFGUIDX 127286

At 14:29 07-04-05 +0000, Eustace_Scrubb wrote:

>While I am as thankful as you about this, Troels, it still means that
>there are many possibilities not closed off re: time travel.

Of course there are -- and many interesting possibilities.

>For example, _someone else_ may have travelled to the past and become
>Dumbledore.

No. None of the characters have returned from the future.
Dumbledore is not someone else who has travelled back in time
to become Dumbledore. He may have travelled in time in the
same manner as Harry and Hermione, but not in order to change
identity, nor has he visited the future of the plot at any
point (including, IMO, the point when he delivers Harry to
the Dursleys).

>Or, at the very least, ONE of the characters may have come
>from the PAST.

They all come from the past. That is part of the normal human
condition ;-)

>One of the characters may be a younger version of another character.

Nope.

>And much depends on exactly which "future" she's talking about.

Again I disagree.

>The time travel speculators have only been given a minor setback with
>this comment.

One would have thought that people believing that the universe
was created a few thousand years ago had been given severe set-
backs by the discoveries of rocks that are millions of years old,
but they do manage to convince themselves otherwise . . .

>Then again, it's a better answer than "Erm, I don't think so."

Much better, though, IMHO, it ought to have been unnecessary.

Regards,
Troels Forchhammer