HELP! was Re: Paradox of Time Travel in PoA

[davenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 132040

Karen Barker wrote:
> What I don't understand is how can TT-H have the 
> memory of a patronus having been cast to save H/Hr & Sirius from 
the 
> dementor attack that hasn't already happened yet in the linear 
time 
> that they are both currently travelling through.

Davenclaw:
Per my theory:

- Harry is saved in some manner we don't see.
- TT-Harry conjures a patronus, but without all the business of 
trying to see his dad.  He just does it to help himself.  This 
alters things - instead of Harry being saved in some unknown way, he 
thinks he was saved by his father's Patronus.
- Next time around, Harry remembers seeing the figure cast the 
Patronus, and thinks it was his dad.  He then realizes it was him, 
and conjures it.  This is the only version of events that we see.

According to everyone else's theory, TT-Harry remembers the Patronus 
because that is the only sequence of events, period.


>  To say nothing of 
> the fact that TT-h/TT-Hr are constantly referring to "Now is where 
> Snape appears, now is where Peter escapes (shall I jump in and 
grab 
> him, no you can't alter anything) etc.  TT-H/TT-Hr both have 
> memories of the events as happened to H/Hr but these events were 
> surely only happening the first time at the same time as they were 
> being observed and anticipated.

Davenclaw:
The TT-H&H have the memories of the events which they just 
experienced a few hours earlier, which they are now witnessing as 
second instances of H&H in the same time period.

- davenclaw