[HPforGrownups] Re: Time-turning

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 167479

From: Dana <ida3 at planet.nl>
>No time isn't linear, time is relative; 

The two are not mutually exlusive. Time can very well be a vector, which makes it linear AND relative. At least, that's how it works in Einsteinian physics.

>which means that every human 
>being experiences time differently even when experienced at the same 
>time. One hour to me can feel like 10 minutes while that same hour 
>feels like eternity to someone else, just because we have a clock to 
>tell us my 10 minutes was actually an hour does not mean it therefore 
>was. It is just a human made law of what is perceived as time.  

That has NOTHING to do with time being relative; in fact, the effects of relativity in time are sufficiently small for humans that the wavelength is smaller than our senses' minimum bandwidth. 

>But if you want to be picky then the first dementor scene in OotP can 
>give a very good explanation of what happened the first time without 
>any inconstancies, Harry1 did conjure the patronus himself just as he 
>did when he was about to be soul sucked in OotP. And when Harry2 did 
>it the second time there was no need for Harry1 to do it and the 
>memory is filled in with him seeing himself on the other side of the 
>bank. The two times fuse as the end time but he actually did conjure 
>the patronus at both times and therefore it was Harry and only Harry 
>that saved himself and Sirius. 

That's one of the two most likely explanations.

Bart