Time-turning

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 167455

> Nikkalmati
>  
> Personally I hope Time turning does not return in book 7, 
it makes my  head  ache!  
<snip:>  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.

Pippin:
Maybe  at that point Harry#2 would have  been trapped in a recursive 
traveling loop like the hummingbird or the cabinet of Time Turners 
at the MoM, as the magic of the TimeTurner continued to move him
forward seeking a universe where no paradox existed. 

The key for me is Dumbledore's statement, "You must not be seen."
No paradox can exist until it has been observed. Since nobody
saw Harry get his soul sucked out by dementors and then return to
save himself, it can't have happened. Until Harry#2 returned to save
himself and collapse the probabilities, perhaps we observers outside
the Potterverse have to consider that Harry#1 was in an
indeterminate state, like Schroedinger's famous cat.

Pippin
who suspects that the baddies will try to mess with time
in Book Seven