Pop Culture Time Travel/ was Re: Paradox of Time Travel in PoA

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No: HPFGUIDX 132043

Heather:
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> Anyway, the question is does she move forward in her OWN 
timeframe, and 
> her own timeframe moves 'backwards' so that it overlaps big-T-Time 
> twice?  Or does she move backward within her OWN timeframe along 
with 
> big-T-time.
> 
> If it were the latter... if she were 'reset' when she used the 
> time-turner to take her second class, then there would need to be 
a 
> point where her two selves re-merged.  Otherwise, she wouldn't 
remember 
> both classes!  

Alisha:

I will attempt to give you another cultural time-travel reference 
that (I hope) may help some people understand the concept.  Watch 
the movie "Kate and Leopold".






SPOILERS for Kate and Leopold









In Kate and Leopold, Leopold travels forward in time, where he meets 
Kate and they fall in love.  In the end, Leopold knows that he must 
travel back to his own time (where he is supposed to be announcing 
his choice of a bride).  Kate's friend (Stewart?) has previously 
gone back in time and is the reason Leopold time-travelled in the 
first place.  While Stewart was there, he took pictures, which he 
later has developed.  When he looks at the pictures, he realizes 
that Kate is in the pictures.  So, even though she hasn't gone back 
in time, she was already there.  When she does travel back in time, 
it becomes obvious that both she and Leopold have all the memories 
of his time in the future (otherwise, he wouldn't choose her as his 
bride and the whole movie would be pointless).  Even though none of 
that has "happened yet", they remember it.  

So in this version of time-travel (very similar to JKR's), time only 
happens once, but is experienced by people twice.  And the time 
travellers retain all of their memories and experiences both times 
they experience time. 

Anyhow, I'm just trying to give another example to help you 
understand how JKR views time-travel (which is admittedly not the 
only way to look at it, but it is the only way that will make sense 
of the events in PoA).

Alisha-attempting to wrap her mind around time-travel without 
resorting to the creation of a new verb-tense, ala Douglas Adams