Paradox of Time Travel in PoA

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 132349

Davenclaw wrote:
"I just don't think this makes sense, nor do I think that is what JKR
had in mind, at all."

(snip)

"I don't care what Hawking or anyone says about the possibility of
time-travel, I think this is the way the story was intended to be read.

While I don't think that JKR thought through the notion that there was
a different set of events that were changed, and we are now seeing the
changed events (from two perspectives), I think that is the
consequence of what she HAS written."

Del replies:
Can we just all agree to disagree?

You think our theories don't make sense, we think they do. You think
the story is meant to be read in a certain way, we think it can be
read that way but that it isn't necessarily the only way. You think
JKR didn't think through some notions, we think something might be off
with what her characters say but that the events are very coherent.

So now that we've all exposed our points of view, let's just agree to
the obvious: that there are many ways to understand the same words and
that, in the absence of a supreme authority, none of those ways can be
definitely declared as The One Right Way. OK :-) ?

In particular, I am slightly hurt at being told that what I think
"doesn't make sense", or that the way I read the story is not the way
JKR "intended" for me to read it. Even though you might be right... ;-)

Del