Paradox of Time Travel in PoA - Before & After

[Sandra Collins]

No: HPFGUIDX 137318

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "davenclaw" 
<daveshardell at y...> wrote:
> > Theory 1- Multiple Timelines - has a huge unresolvable hole 
in it.

The only hold with this theory is that JKR probably didn't consider 
> and certainly never wrote what events took place before time 
> traveling changed things.

Tell me again how the future happens before the  past?
> 
> 
> - davenclaw

Sandra writes:
Thank you a million times over Davenclaw, you eloquently make 
the point, and also the essential one being that JKR didn't allow 
any consideration for what happened BEFORE Harry and 
Hermione went time travelling. There was the original timeline, 
which is the one where no seeds were chucked at the original 
Harry (and flowerpot) at Buckbeak's, there was also a series of 
events where no patronus charged to Harry's rescue, and there 
was also a series of unfortunate incidents involving Sirius - all 
on the original timeline. I'm amazed people are still having 
difficulty with this, just because JKR chose to ignore it. 
Imagine if they'd made Back To The Future with the same 
disregard for the original timeline - all we would have seen was 
Marty getting two teenagers to start dating so that he could be 
born one day! It doesn't work and is utterly logic-defying unless 
the original timeline is shown and respected.
Now there's a chcken and egg situation which I hope illustrates 
the point even more simply for some people! LOL.

Sandra