Time Turner...Harry2 Arrived at 6pm

[sandra87b]

No: HPFGUIDX 123600


bboyminn:
> Think about the first time through the time loop.
> Harry WAS save; the Dementors didn't get him. That IS a fact; that IS
> history; that IS the book's account of the first time through the loop.

Sandra:
Hi there - and this is an interesting angle which I hadn't thought of before! 
Mind you, I think the first time through the loop as you show it ISN'T the first 
time through the loop - it's the first which JKR tells us about, and that's why 
it's wrong.  (Do excuse the following bits in capital letters, they're only there 
because I can't do italics to show the emphasise!) She goes for the easy 
option of saying what happened WITH an intervention, but doesn't even 
attempt to say HOW that intervention could ever have actually happened. The 
important thing to remember is that Harry was never able to save himself 
because the Dementors got to him and Sirius, and they couldn;t do anything 
about it. - full stop. That's the first timeline, and any future events need to 
stem FROM that rather than DESPITE that. To really get your heads around 
the dilemma, try The Guardian Of Time, because that has a similar 
self-intervention which tackles all the issues - and I think it's because of how 
that's portrayed that the PoA kind of gets to me so much - it plain old don't 
work.
Sandra.