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

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 190282

Steve:
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> Keep in mind that Hermione had been time turning all year, are we really to suppose she spawned hundreds of new unique time lines simply by going to multiple classes? And if so, what happens to all those many many new time lines? DO they converge? Do they keep on going independently? Are there now hundreds of Hermiones living in hundred of different spawned time lines?

Bart:
     Hermione's warnings imply that alternative timelines can be 
generated, and that, in the WW, it is what is widely regarded as a Bad 
Idea. It would not be unreasonable to assume that insanity or death 
would be a likely outcome. And Harry did create a paradox.

     The problem with this and many other inconsistencies (for example, 
Dumbledore's age, that the relative value of a galleon seems to range 
from about $100 in the earlier books to more like about $10 in the later 
ones, that people who are obsessed with "racial purity" are contemptuous 
of the racially pure who have lots of children) is the level of 
attention to detail that JKR uses when she is planting clues. In short, 
when anything might be a clue, logical inconsistencies stand out far more.

     Bart