Something that caught my eye/Time travel in JKR books

[Wayne Cochran]

No: HPFGUIDX 159240

Jenni from Alabama:

<Snipped from Jenni>Also, JK said that she was going to kill Harry off in the 7th book 
so that no one could write more Harry Potter books later. I think 
that she made a major, HUGE mistake in incorporating the concept of 
time travel in her novels. Though the Ministry of magic's supply of 
time turners were destroyed in the 5th book, there are possibly more 
out there. And even if there are not, these are made by magic. There 
are wizards who are powerful and can create more of these objects. 
They (whoever the future author(s) is) can always go back and 
prevent Harry's demise and have many other adventures. 

JK really messed up with that one in my opinion!

  Raven Heart:
  Not really, you have to look at the JKR theory of time travel. When an individual travels in time in the Potterverse, nothing is changed. All of the events that happened when Harry and Hermione time turned occured exactly as they did the first time they lived through those events. It's not like in some of the movies like Back to the Future and Terminator, where people travel in time and do something that screws up the whole space time continuum. In the version of time travel JKR uses, time travelling doesn't cause anything that changes the course of history, it only allows it to become the history that it already is. If someone goes back in time to prevent Harry's death after it has already happened, either they have no effect on the outcome, or they discover that it was their use of the time turner that causes Harry's death. Granted, that may not stop someone from trying to use this to continue the story of Harry Potter, but it would break JKR's rules, which would probably
 make it less believable for the faithful readers.


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