[HPforGrownups] Re: Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 16: Professor Trelawney's prediction

Margaret Dean margdean56 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 12 16:34:32 UTC 2011


No: HPFGUIDX 190213

> Bart:
> > OK, here's time travel 101: When you time travel into the past, you
> > cannot change anything in your own past, particularly the fact that
> > you had traveled back in time. However, you can do something that
> > appears to have changed the past as long as everything happens the
> > way you remembered it.

Well, that's apparently how it works in JKR's wizarding world, anyway.
 Time travel has been a fictional trope for a long time, and SF
writers have rung many, many changes on it and how it works.

Just sayin'.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean56 at gmail.com>




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