[HPforGrownups] Re: Time-turning/DH cover

[silmariel]

No: HPFGUIDX 167470

On 13 Apr 2007 00:29:34 -0700, Steve <bboyminn at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>  Now perhaps I misspoke myself earlier when I equated
>  'Time Happens One' to 'Bliss'. It is not bliss to
>  ponder this, it is a great big headache, so I now
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>  Time Happens Once = a big headache.
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>  Time Happens Twice = A headache so big no mortal can
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Silmariel:

Lol.

Time Happens Once = problem I have with this way of seeing it, is that
requires me to think that a harry that had still not traveled in time
and was about to be dead, somehow, I mean, because the author decides
so, is alive. And I don't get why Hermione tells the bit about wizards
going back in time and killing themselves: if time travel only can
happen if it has already happened, there's no reason to worry, those
wizards *had* to travel because the timeline can't change, so is fine.

Time Happens Twice = not so much a headache, I only have to construct
a sequence of events or changes in the timeline that get me finally to
the events in the book. Not a new idea, I posted this a few years ago.

My version of the lake scene is that Snape was not unconscious, and
only had to wait for Harry to be distracted enough. As it reaches a
point where Harry barely sees anything, he could have not notice.
Snape saves Harry, H/H go to castle, there's still Sirius to be
rescued, DD sends them and in the process Harry ends saving himself,
maybe because he refuses to believe/accept that Snape has saved him.

When I posted this Snape had not the reputation as superwizard that
has know, and we didn't know he used a different method to handle
dementors.

Pick your own, really. If the jumps of faith time happening once
requires don't bother you, it's an easier explanation. I prefer twice
or trice.

About the US DH cover, I really don't see the scar.

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/gallery/picture/129927

(click to enlarge)

Where is supposed to be? I have tried to imagine it beneath the hair,
but it doesn't work. Though the absence is quite usual, if the DH are
the lands behind the veil, scars dissapear, heals wound, and that
doesn't happen to Voldie because it's his soul what is corrupted, not
only his body.

Silmariel