[HPforGrownups] Harry's dead (short lifeline)

[Gregory Lynn]

No: HPFGUIDX 123660

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 03:05:23 -0500 (EST), Bee Chase
<luckdragon64 at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
> caesian <caesian at yahoo.com> wrote:
> In PoA, Professor Trelawney wastes no time telling Harry he has the
> shortest life line she has ever seen.
> 
> 
> Her observation got me thinking - what if Harry does have an incredibly
> short life line?  For example, the life line of someone who died in
> infancy.
> 

On the other hand, what if it's short because no time has really
passed since that night?  Harry has his mother's protection and can't
be killed.  The AK can't be stopped.  Irresistable force meets
immovable object and it causes a rift in the space time continuum and
all existence is in a kind of loop where they experience life
progressing, but it isn't actually.  Like if you had a time turner and
went back an hour, waited an hour, went back another hour, waited an
hour, and repeated a number of times.  You'd feel like you waited ten
hours or so but in reality it's the same time as when you left.

Harry and Voldemort are linked and neither can live while the other
survives.  Taken literally, the only way the stories make sense is if
no time has elapsed.  I think it is entirely possible that in a story
where nothing is as it seems, the best way to hide the key to it all
would be to have it taken literally.

How many times have we had things repeated?  Book four is essentially
a repeat of book one--go through challenges try to stop Voldie from
coming back--and book five is essentially a repeat of book two--find a
way into a secret chamber to rescue someone.

Time playing itself over again--time turner, Riddle coming back to
finish Salazar Slytherin's "noble work", the baby-headed death eater.

The references to Dumbledore's age and the gleam of triumph could mean
that he is somehow outside the temporal loop and for whatever reason,
can't proceed until the loop is resolved.  Voldemort taking Harry's
blood means the thing can be resolved and Dumbledore can go on to the
next great adventure.

-- 
Gregory Lynn