Hermione dead and MAJOR SPOILER to "The Sixth Sense" movie

[Miles]

No: HPFGUIDX 147152

lucianam73 wrote:
> If Hermione-under-the-books died it's obvious someone (Dumbledore?)
> found her body and kept the truth from everyone. If
> Hermione-in-the-Brain Room was dead, presumably Dumbledore knew,
> somehow, that there was a living Hermione in the office by the Time
> Room and he switched them. He could have done it easily, since
> everyone else in that room was unconscious or off their nut. Either
> way, I figure Dumbledore knows.
<snip> Oh, and one last thing, I don't think Hermione knows any of this.
> Otherwise, she would have been completely distressed in HBP. Maybe
> when one of your selves dies in a Time Travel context, you take its
> place so completely, you lose all the memories that don't belong to
> the 'time in Time' you have been fixed to. Including all memories from
> the Time Travel that brought you to your new 'present'.

Miles:
The idea is fun to read, yes, crazy - really, it is, but I like it.
But I have a few major problems with it.

1) As you mentioned yourself, there is no hint for a timetravel after PoA.
So, if your construction would appear to be true, JKR would have introduced
it without any clue - that's not her style, isn't it?
2) There would be no reason for a Past!Hermione to travel into the future.
She is not a Seer, and there is no Seer she is in contact to, who could have
predicted a future situation in such an exact way, that she would have
decided to timetravel to this specific point of time in the future.
A Future!Hermione would have tried to either prevent the Ministry Mission or
to alarm the Order (or Aurors) much earlier to prevent the mortal peril for
Harry, the other students, and the Order members. And to prevent Sirius's
death. But we know, that Hermione neither succeeded to avert the travel (she
would have found a way if she knew what would happen - she is Hermione), nor
succeeded to ease the Ministry situation.
3) If I put my problems of 2) out of the way, my question is - so what? What
would it add to the plot if either a Future! or Past! or Present!Hermione
had died in OotP, being replaced by any of these three Hermiones without
realising it - and without any consequences for her, Harry, Ron or the
remaining parts of the HP story? To construct it, JKR would need to write
may lines without any purpose for her plot - and we all know her plot needs
many lines to be complete in book 7.

My final problem is, by the way, that writing about time travelling makes
English grammar horribly complicated, especially if you have to use
subjunctive forms as well. But I must admit that this objection is slightly
OT.

Miles