The point of Time-Turning (was Paradox of Time Travel in PoA)

[amis917]

No: HPFGUIDX 132047

Del wrote:
The whole point of Time-Turning is to make the past happen the way it 
happened.

davenclaw wrote:
Then why are people worried about seeing their past-selves when they 
go back?  They should already know if it happened.  


Amie now:

The PAST self wouldn't know. 

Think about this. You're say, 25, and you travel back in time to when 
you're 7. You're 25 year old self is no longer in 2005, but in 1987. 
It's alot easier, I think, to think of time travel in larger chunks 
than smaller. So say, you're 25 and meet your 7 year old self. You 
know this happens, because at 25 - you can remember when you were 7. 
It's possible that at 7, you wouldn't know you were meeting yourself -
 or you could. Time travel is definetly confusing.

I'm never read Hitchikers Guide as Heather suggested, but I have read 
The Time Traveler's Wife. It (as the title suggests) is about time 
travel, what people know, don't know, remember, can't remember. It 
would definetly help to make this clearer! :)

-Amie