Paradox of Time Travel in PoA

[Jonathan House]

No: HPFGUIDX 132132

From: "davenclaw" <daveshardell at yahoo.com>
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>Perhaps that is the disconnect here: everyone else is describing 
>events as they are understood within the Potterverse, whereas I am
>complaining that we, as outside observers, are left out of the 
>series of events that were not tampered with.


Jonathan:
In order for your statement to be correct, you have to prove that there 
were an original series of events that were different at some point in 
the history of that universe. There is nothing in PoA that confirms that 
more than one set of events had occurred:

Dumbledore's statement about saving more than one innocent life - He 
never said that Buckbeak was indeed dead.

Harry, Ron & Hermione's reaction to Buckbeak's "execution" - All they 
heard was the chunk of an axe, followed by Hagrid's wailing. They did 
not see buckbeak die, nor did they hear exactly what Hagrid was going on 
about.

You'll never be able to prove that your interpretation of the story time 
travel is correct, because you don't have any facts that definitely 
indicate that a separate set of events occurred. And the camp of "one 
timeline, multiple H&H" doesn't have anything that proves conclusively 
that they are right. All we can go on is the story line, which strongly 
hints that the "one timeline" camp is how things happened.