Time Turner...(TT during PoA)

[sandra87b]

No: HPFGUIDX 123140


> Trekkie:
> I still think you can compare creating a new timeline with creating a 
> parallel or alternat universe. That way, things CAN affect each other - in 
> ONE reality, but not in the one you came from, thus making it possible to 
> kill yourself as a child.
> 


Speaking of killing oneself, I'm tempted to kill myself over this headache! I've 
read everyone's replies and I'm pleased to see what everyone thinks, but it all 
still does my head in because I can't get past the original loop hole, ie that 
Harry can't save himself in the way JKR described. His first time line reaches 
a bad conclusion with the Dementors so there's just no way he can be in a 
position to stop it from happening because he doesn't survive to get there. It 
just seems so obvious to me that I can't believe JKR let it slip through. If you 
compare the way of intervening with the way that Bob Taylor intervenes in his 
own past in The Guardian Of Time, that intervention is dealt with in the 
original plot's time line - so it all works out, and I don't get severe brain ache. 
The natural course of events is never messed up because everything 
reaches it's natural conclusion ie his intervention does not prevent his earlier 
self from doing anything that wouldn't otherwise have happened. It's a little 
tricky to explain, but works in such a way that I'm happy about it...

But back to PoA, the Time Turner does get conveniently forgotten in the next 
two books, doesn't it?

Sandra.