What if...?

[Dana]

No: HPFGUIDX 168906

What if..?

I was reading something on Leaky when something occurred to me. Maybe 
it is just an absurd thought and it is probably nothing new but 
anyway, what if..?

What if the one person that was present at GH was Harry but not just 
only present at this event but what if Harry travelled back in time 
before events on GH occurred? What if he had interactions with his 
parents or just Lily and what let to the Potter's rejecting DD as 
their secret keeper. What if the awful boy Petunia was referring to 
was non- other then Harry telling Lily about Sirius being locked up 
in Azkaban for 12 years? Harry looks so much like his father that 
people seeing him, would think they were looking at James but only 
Harry's eyes would have given him away. 

Lily or both Lily and James would realise that they can't change the 
future because to many unknowns would happen if they did but what if 
slight changes were made, like James sending the invisibility cloak 
to DD.
Maybe in the first event Lupin was included in the secret keeper 
switch but was now left out of it to make it unable for him to 
interfere with events. 


It could be that Sirius was left out of it entirely but it could be 
that he knew more about some events but not everything, this might 
not even have to be from either Lily or James it could be that either 
one of them left him a letter or Harry did, it would explain him 
making a will and why he did not care much about his own life, if he 
thought he was going to die anyway and why he became increasingly 
depressed about being locked up in the house of his parents, because 
let's face it if you knew you would be dying next year wouldn't you 
be depressed if you have to spend your last time on earth in such a 
g*d-forsaken place? 

It could even be that James did not know everything and Harry only 
talking to his mother and why his mother agreed with the SK switch. 
Time travelling Harry would only know the last course of events and 
he doesn't know the meaning of many of the things that occurs but if 
he told Lily then she would know what needed to be changed for events 
to actually occur as Harry told her because she would be able to 
understand what would make it able for things to occur as they did. 

JKR's time travel and how she used it in her Potterverse would make 
it difficult to make assumptions of what did or did not occur during 
the first time around because after the time travelling events, only 
the last time and the final version of events remain standing. Harry 
himself would not know what was changed because of his visit into the 
past because he was to young to witness him being there and the 
changes made in the past automatically changes his memory of things, 
just like with anyone else that had no prior knowledge it had been 
different in a first time. 

It could be that it was not James that he heard saying to Lily that 
she should take Harry (baby) and run, it could be that he heard 
himself tell Lily that Voldemort was coming when he heard is father 
fight LV downstairs and why Lupin was so surprised Harry had heard 
his father because Lupin would know the place and would think it 
impossible for Harry to have heard his father. 

Lily might not only have saved baby Harry that night but also her 17 
year old son and just like DD (on the tower) it made her unable to 
fight LV when he came up to the room because her actions made a 
timely response impossible and 17 year old Harry could not do 
anything to prevent events from unfolding just like he could do 
nothing on the tower and when LV killed Lily and directed his 
attention on baby Harry there was nothing 17 year old Harry could do 
and right after LV could no longer hurt Harry. 

It makes me think that Lily's sacrifice was that much more important 
then James's because she did not only sacrificed herself for baby 
Harry but also for 17 year old son and why she did not apperate out 
with baby Harry because it would mean leaving 17 year old Harry 
behind because she would know he would try to delay LV just like his 
dad and it might have been this events of a mother's love that 
protected baby Harry from the killing curse. 17 year old Harry took 
care of his baby self and it was probably him that informed DD of 
what had happened and why DD made the choices that he did for Harry 
and why he hesitated so much to tell Harry everything because he knew 
that too much information could do more harm then good. 

Of course it is just a theory but it would make a lot of sense to me 
why everything happened as it happened and it would certainly explain 
DD's actions but also why Lily did not apperate out, while she had 
the chance.

Dana