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

[June Ewing]

>> 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 traveling 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.


June:
I never said there didn't have to be rules in time travel. What I
said was that there is not really any such thing as time travel
(when was the last time you traveled in time Bart?) so the writers
can make their own rules when writing their stories. How can there
be set rules for something that does not exist? JK Rowling broke
no rules because there are no rules. It is like in some movies/books
they will tell you, you cannot come in contact with yourself or a
family member (Back to the Future comes to mind) because you can
do damage to the time continuum, but in other movies/books you see
people going back in time actually talking to their younger selfs or
forward and talking to their older selfs (Doctor Who I believe
covered that at least one). Which one of these scenarios are you
going to say is wrong? If you say either is wrong then you are wrong
because as a society that has never traveled in time (the closest we
get is traveling from one part of the world to another part with a
different time zone) we don't really know.