[HPforGrownups] re: UnbreakableVow/Snape&DD/FamilyBias/Horcrux/Lupin/Wolfsbane/TimeTravel/Nagini

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 157223

On 8/20/06, Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady at wicca.net> wrote:

> Steve bboyminn wrote in
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/157007>:
>
> << If you take the approach that time happened only once, but Harry
> and Hermione happened twice, it gets much easier. If you view it
> right, JKR's account of time travel is as reasonable and consistent as
> is possible for time travel. >>
>
bboyminn:
> Yes, but it is just as inconsistent with Free Will as unbreakable
> Prophecies are, and without Free Will, what is the point of nattering
> on and on about choices?

Not necessarily. There are interpretations that preserve both - the
Novikov Self-consistency Principle, for example, only says that things
have to fall into place one way or another - the idea that any attempt
to cause an "inconsistent" version of the timeline must fail no more
contradicts the idea of free will than the fact that any attempt to
reverse entropy must fail.

Free will only requires that you be able to make a choice, not that
you be able to make one choice, then go back in time and successfully
influence your past self to make the opposite choice.

I'm curious as to why you think "the approach that time happened only
once, but Harry and Hermione happened twice" is inconsistent with free
will.