Time-turning

[puduhepa98 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 167451

>bboyminn
>the fallible loop aspect seems to be the fact that
Harry could have  chosen NOT to go back in time, thereby
creating an unresolvable time paradox.  In theory, that
is true, but look at the circumstances. Even though
he  doesn't immediately understand the details of the
plan, he does understand  that it is his one and only 
chance to save Sirius. 

>Lots of  things can happen /in theory/, lots of very 
crazy and unlikely things. I  could win the Lottery,
but the realistic odds are astronomically against  it.
In reality, despite infinite theoretical possibilities,
we actually  only have a limited set of choices. 

>Given who Harry was and what  Harry knew, he could 
logically and realistically have made only one  possible
choice. So, the time paradox of Harry choosing to not 
go back in  time, while having theoretical merit, has no
real world merit.
 
Nikkalmati
 
Personally I hope Time turning does not return in book 7, it makes my  head 
ache!  I just wanted to point out it is Hermione who decides to go  back, not 
Harry.  Harry has no idea what is happening until they  are hiding in the 
closet outside the Great Hall waiting for themselves to  go on by.  The decision 
Harry makes is to step out and cast the  Patronus.  That is the moment of truth, 
so to speak, and he almost doesn't  do it, because he was under the mistaken 
impression that it was his father he  saw!  Close call there!.  If he had 
waited a moment longer, he would  have been killed.  Was that a possibility in the 
world JKR has  created?  It looks like it was a possibility to me.  I assume 
his  future would have been wiped out and a new time-line created from that 
moment  forward, one in which LV may succeed.
 
Nikkalmati 




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