[HPforGrownups] Re: Time Turners

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 142298

 
In a message dated 10/29/2005 5:46:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
agdisney at msn.com writes:

When Harry & Hermione went back in time, Sirius & Buckbeak were still  alive.
I don't believe Buckbeak had been killed and DD knew  that.
Since they hadn't been killed yet, that's why Harry &  Hermione were able to
change history. IMO.
I don't think  it would be possible to go back in time & bring the others
back  to life since we know they have been killed.
Just my  thoughts.


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Sherrie here:
 
The key is that we don't know that Buckbeak WAS killed in the first  
go-round.  Neither the Trio, nor we, SAW him die - we (and they) HEARD what  we 
assumed was the axe hitting his neck - but we later find that that was the  axe 
going into the fencepost.  
 
IMHO, the actions of Harry II & Hermione II were necessarily already a  part 
of the time stream - they had to be there because they WERE there, the  first 
time around.  Otherwise, Harry I could not have seen Harry II cast  the 
patronus.
 
(I refer you to Robert Heinlein's TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE & subsequent  Lazarus 
Long books, or Harlan Ellison's "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty",  for a 
better explanation of why a time traveler can't really change history,  
because what's going to happen, HAS happened, & they become the agent of  MAKING it 
happen - Harry Turtledove notwithstanding.)
 
Sherrie


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