I'm not sure what to call it, maybe it's a Timey-Wimey Ball, but the explanation of Holiday House has certain problems.
Say that Harvey went there and met a kid who disappeared a month before he did. Say also, that they escaped at the same time, like he and Wendell did.
By the book's logic, the child who'd been there longer should return to a time thirty years beyond where Harvey himself returned to.
Harvey and Wendell, therefore, should not have returned to the same time the first time, or because harvey pulled him through, Wendell was actually spared a worse fate.
Similarly, if Lulu is a little older than Harvey's parents (Her husband - not fiance - is described as a little older than Harvey's dad), then she ought to have been a fish long ago when Harvey arrived, as she is not, they should be roughly the same age.
"Give sorrow words; The grief that does not speak knits up the o'er-wrought heart, and bids it break." William Shakespeare - Macbeth
I'm not sure what to call it, maybe it's a Timey-Wimey Ball, but the explanation of Holiday House has certain problems.
Say that Harvey went there and met a kid who disappeared a month before he did. Say also, that they escaped at the same time, like he and Wendell did.
By the book's logic, the child who'd been there longer should return to a time thirty years beyond where Harvey himself returned to.
Harvey and Wendell, therefore, should not have returned to the same time the first time, or because harvey pulled him through, Wendell was actually spared a worse fate.
Similarly, if Lulu is a little older than Harvey's parents (Her husband - not fiance - is described as a little older than Harvey's dad), then she ought to have been a fish long ago when Harvey arrived, as she is not, they should be roughly the same age.
"Give sorrow words; The grief that does not speak knits up the o'er-wrought heart, and bids it break." William Shakespeare - Macbeth