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

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 190217

On 4/12/2011 12:15 PM, June Ewing wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> JKR, of course, broke the rule by having Harry save his own life,
>> because there is no explanation of what happened at the beginning
>> of the time loop; how Harry survived to go back to the past to save
>> himself.
>> But it's her story.
>
> June:
> Personally I believe since time travel is not a reality, that the rules are in the hands of the person who is writing at that time. So H.G. Wells may have had his rules about time travel and J.K. Rowling has her rules about time travelling and neither of them in my opinion are wrong because it is their story and they make the rules.

Bart:
     Harry Potter and the Time Turner

     Harry smiled at his parents. "It was really a great idea to take 
Hermione's Time Turner and go back in time with the evidence that Tommy 
Riddle had opened the Chamber of Secrets. I learned at Hogwarts that he 
passed away in Azkaban 15 years ago."

     "Who knows what would have happened if he had gotten away with 
it?", asked James.

     Harry smiled.

     The End.

In other words, there have to be SOME rules with time travel.

Bart