Time-turning

[Goddlefrood]

No: HPFGUIDX 167503

> Nikkalmati:

> > Personally I hope Time turning does not return in book 7, it 
makes my  head ache!  

Goddlefrood:

Mine too, it may still have a part to play, but like you I hope 
not :)

> Ceridwen:

> And the danger of Time Travel, and of seeing your future self, 
is demonstrated by Harry's newly-implanted memory of "seeing his 
father" and almost not acting soon enough to make the trip 
worthwhile.

Goddlefrood:

Goddlefrood:

I pretend no expertise in time travel, let's face it, the concept 
remains theoretical and there is no empirical evidence of it. 

Here's an explanation that may be of interest, I wish I could 
have written this :):

"One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not 
that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There 
is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother 
that a broadminded and well adjusted family can't cope with. 
There is also no problem about changing the course of history 
- the course of history does not change because it all fits 
together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened 
before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts 
itself out in the end.

The major problem is quite simply one of grammar, and the main 
work to consult this matter is Dr Dan Streementioner's Time 
Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations ... Most readers 
get as far at the Future Semi-Conditionally Modified Subinverted 
Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up; and in 
fact in later editions of the book all pages beyond this point 
have been left blank to save on pronting costs."

Later on:

On Milliway's (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe):

"You can arrive (mayan arrivan on-when) for any sitting you 
like without prior (late fore-when) reservtion because you can 
book retrospectively, as it were when you return to your own 
time. (you can have on-book haventa forewhen presooning 
returningwenta retrohome).

This is, many would now insist, absolutely impossible."

All from Chapter 15 of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe 
by Douglas Adams.

Make sense of it what you will, there really is little sense in 
time travel at all.

Goddlefrood, backing fromto the pastwhen.