Originally posted by: Lumos
Hermy,
No offense meant but your explanations look good in the literary sense of the word, but as far as logic goes, its got absolutely no merit. Surely JKR's logical logicless charm works on diehard loyal readers!
Look folks, time is like a flowing river. Theres going to be a source, and an end. There will be a past, and future. You cannot live future in the present! Past and future cannot simultaneously exist as that would mean time is stagnant!!
if TT had so much merit, then a single man could have formed an invincible army! You dont look conviced, huh? Okay forget everything..answer just this-
You said TT makes one present at two places at the same time. Fine. Now pls read the below illustration-
hermione on her timetable has herbology and transfiguration from 9AM to 11AM. The real hermione attends herbology.
At 11.15 she turns back the chimes to return at 9 to attend transfiguration. Now after an hour she meets with an accident in class and dies.
Now interpretations following your two places at one time funda(u will have a good laugh..lol..read on)-
1) If you argue that one cannot die while time traveling, it would mean that your time-traveling self becomes invincible. So it would also mean duplicating one's soul?
2) On the contrary, if you agree that she died, then who was the one who lived from 10am to 11.15 in herbology class??
Hmmm...where do I start...right, first lets clear this out. You call me Hermy, then you tell me not to take offence...and then you suggest I DIE!!!😲
😆 Ok ok...jokes apart, I NEVER said it's logical 😕...in fact, it's completely illogical and that's why I kept stating so many times that given that it's fiction, and more importantly involving magic, anything is possible in such a world. It's all imagination.
And about your fatally interesting example😉, (no I'm not laughing because it's actually quite interesting)...let's see, going by JK's theory I would say she dies 3hrs15mins after Herbology began. So she isn't invincible and nor is she dead before-hand. I know this is hard to comprehend but I guess it's mostly because, 'Time' is such a common phenomenon for us, that when it comes to any fictional theories regarding the same, our base foundations of the concept will not let us fully accept the imaginary. With other things in JKR's world it's taken for granted because we have never really dealt with those in our own way...no one's ever used a wand or seen a giant for real or turned into the exact physical appearance of another, but we always have heard fairytales and stories concerning the same. So we accept that as possible in the magic world. 😊
And this is not directly related to the topic on hand but on a sidenote, I've always thought about this, I feel that by using the TT Hermione actually aged more... don't you think? Given that she used it for almost a year and assuming she turned back time for approx10 hours/day during the weekdays and 2hours/day on weekends i.e. (50+4=54hrs/week) * approx 4 weeks/month makes it 216 hours/month and assuming she used it for nine months of school, she had 216*9 = 1944 hours more to her life than the others. This means, going as per the 24hrs for a day, she actually lived for 81 or so more days than what she would have sans the TT.
Anyway, to conclude, I'm not saying that it's possible to actually be in 2 places at once...it's just that the TT would help one do so provided they lived in the Wizarding World or provided that such a world existed. 😳
Edited by Mione - 12 years ago
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