[HPforGrownups] Re: Paradox of Time Travel in PoA (long!)

[Troels Forchhammer]

No: HPFGUIDX 135956

At 08:15 01-08-05 +0000, you wrote:
>--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Troels Forchhammer
><troelsfo at y...> wrote:
> > I don't think there actually is a well-defined model for time in
> > Potterverse because I don't think Rowling will have considered
> > that -- math and physics: her mind doesn't work that way).
>
>Hi everyone, you're all getting tooo deep! Forget the maths and
>physics etc. The time nonsense in book 3 doesn't work because
>JKR didn't think it through - it's a remarkably simple flaw and
>goes like this:

Actually you are yourself the one to go too deep.

If you consider for a moment the statement you left in, you
will see that I actually assert that there is no answer to
the question because Rowling hasn't given (and probably not
even imagined) one.

Don't forget that we are talking about an incomplete world:
if Rowling hasn't told us what colour someone's hair is, then
that person's hair hasn't got any colour. That is how simple
it is.

Time, in Potterverse, doesn't work according to any model
because it is very doubtful that Rowling actually has an
intended model in mind at all. That, however, shouldn't
stop of from considering the range of /possible/ models --
i.e. models that are consistent with the descriptions in
the books (just as the absence of a definite hair colour
shouldn't stop us from considering the possible colours),
and even state personal preferences. But we should always
recall how simple the reality of Potterverse really is: the
thing just doesn't exist.

>Sometimes things can be very simple.

Unfortunately what you were suggesting is /extremely/ complex . . .

/Troels