The Invisible Hand in the CoS - long

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 144852

n_longbottom01
> If you can remember way back at the beginning of this LONG post, I 
> said that some posts here at HP for Grownups caused this stuff to 
> jump out at me when I read through the scene.  I wish I could
> track the post down
 I've searched for it and can't find it.  The
> post examined the Battle at the Ministry of Magic, and concluded 
> there was some evidence of time travel hidden in the details
>  there.  If someone knows where those posts are located, I'd 
> appreciate some help finding them.

Jen: That was a really well-constructed theory, n_longbottom. My 
only addition is Dumbledore could be the one discovered as the 
invisible time-traveler <g>.

Here's the beginning of the thread on time-travel in the MOM, with 
Valky's ideas about the Trio time-traveling to the night Sirius died:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/142059

The idea of a TT Dumbledore is compelling if we discover he was 
living on borrowed time during HBP, after the ring curse and Snape's 
patch-up. Knowing his life was ending, there may have been one or 
two things (not loads) he wanted to see again and couldn't use the 
Pensieve because he wasn't present at the original events. 

You and Valky suggested the other alternative, that Harry or the 
Trio time-travels in Book 7. They would discover Dumbledore's watch 
was a TT device and Ron's birthday watch has the same function.
I think Valky suggested the possibilty the Trio could run into 
Dumbledore during their adventure and realize he'd done a fair bit 
of traveling himself over the years! It sounds convoluted, but JKR 
would weave it together with style. She's so good at making possible 
plot devices come off with a bang instead of a clunk. And it would 
be a way for Harry to learn some things from Dumbledore one last 
time.

Jen