Time travel/ was:Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 16

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 190361






--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Shelley Gardner <k12listmomma at ...> wrote:

> Zanooda is using Novikov self-consistency

zanooda:

Wow, very interesting, I had no idea, thanks for the info, Shelley :-).


> Shelley:

> My husband also pointed out that Dumbledore, in order to stall at 
> Hagrid's "intentionally" to allow Harry and Hermione time to rescue 
> Buckbeak, must have been aware of the Time travel, and that is also 
> consistent with the Novikovian theory. 

zanooda:

Still not sure about that :-). I do believe that DD was stalling, but it's easier for me to assume that he didn't know at that time that Harry attempting to save Buckbeak was back-in-time Harry. I think DD thought it was a present-time Harry, and only later he guessed (or found out somehow) that it was back-in-time Harry. I doubt that DD could see into the future.

> Shelley:

> Anyway, sorry if the discussion about time makes people's 
> brains hurt. 

zanooda:

LOL! Mind-bending, isn't it :-)?


> Shelley:

>  If Buckbeak had not been executed, (because he was saved by H&H), > and the execution of Sirius was still 10 or 15 minutes off, is not > that then "no executions"?

zanooda:

Oh, I see now what you mean. The word "after" confused me, I guess :-). Anyway, yeah, DD sent the kids back *before* Sirius's execution, because it was the only way to stop it. With Fudge unyielding and the execution just minutes away DD found himself out of options.