Paradox of Time Travel in PoA - Before & After

[doddiemoemoe]

No: HPFGUIDX 137323

Davenclaw asked:
> > 
> 
> Um, yeah it does.  Tell me again how the future happens before the 
> past?
> 
> 
Doddie:

I don't have any sort of answer beyond that we know from cannon that 
time has been studied extensively judging from the artifacts and 
incidents which took place in the Time Room in the Dept. of Misteries.

>From the many examples of the manipulation of time we see(egg-to-bird-
to-egg, book shelves tumbling again and again, the DE's aging/age 
regressing head), I believe we can safely assume that the time turner 
itself magically handles the sort of paradoxes that can typically 
occur.

As often as Hermione had to time turn throughout poa and no great 
physical troubles arose is further proof of this.(I believe it was 
emotionally exhausting for her however.)

The future doesn't happen before the past, the future is always an 
infinite number of possibilities...



Doddie
(Who is entirely greateful that all the time turners were destroyed 
in OOP! It is one thing to discuss the physics of time travel out 
here in muggle world, but a whole other can of worms to disuss the 
types of charms/spells that must have been used to make a time turner-
-let alone the other things in that room.  No wonder why they were 
smashed!)