Time Turner...(TT during PoA)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 122913


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "TrekkieGrrrl" <trekkie at s...> 
wrote:

TrekkieGrrrl:

> So if timeline A lets you be, say 50 years old and you then jump 
back to 
> when you are20 and kill yourself, you are not creating THAT 
timeline until 
> that very point. So we actually have branching timelines. Not as 
much the 
> "All Good Things" scenario, but more like the Star Trek NG 
episode "Cause 
> and Effect" where Worf encounters several timelines AT THE SAME 
TIME. - all 
> branching from the same moment where he meets an anomaly. In HP the 
anomaly 
> is created by the use of a Time Turner but the result is the same. 
And if 
> Harry and Hermione had each their timeturner they could have left 
Timeline A 
> and created both Timeline B and C, as they would have each their 
timeline, 
> branching from timeline A, but what Harry did to Hermione in 
Timeline B 
> wouldn't affect Timeline C and vice versa.
> 
> Gah. Now my head spins.


Geoff:
I think the whole point of "Cause and Effect" wasn't several 
timelines, but umpteen thousand parallel universes which I don't 
think are quite the same thing.

In the past, I have quoted Miles O'Brien in the episode where he 
meets his future self from five hours ahead (I can't locate the title 
at the moment) and they sit side by side and comment "I hate temporal 
mechanics!"

Somewhere in the distant past, during 2004 I think, there was a 
thread on this and someone constructed a timeline to accommodate both 
Harrys. Unfortunately, I didn't post to this thread so I have no 
reference in my own archive. If someone has the patience to sit down 
with Yahoo and a long drink.........

Geoff

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