I know it's probably a bug of some sort, but considering the plot revolves around time travel...
Edited by Theatre_Maven_3695
Foreign Troper
Timey-Wimey Ball: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban implies that time travel results in a Stable Time Loop note Harry sees his future self save him from dementors., but this play has time easily being changed.
Is that so? I remember Hermione explicitly warning Harry that time is a dangerous thing to play with, because it sometimes happened that somebody killed his past self.
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% Scandinavian Hide / Show Replies
It was a stable time loop in the movie and the book, but the book canon's rules of Time Travel appear to be some sort of combination of Stable Time Loop and Temporal Paradox - for instance, while Harry was able to see himself cast the Patronus that made the Dementors flee, Hermione mentions when explaining the mechanics of the Time-Turner that there had been historical precedent of wizards going back in time and killing their past selves, which was the whole reason why the Ministry created such strict rules regarding the use of Time-Turners in the first place. The movie just has it be a You Already Changed the Past thing.
The Protomen enhanced my life.
My guess is the Time Turners in POA, as official ones with a specific purpose, are made to only create a Stable Time Loop but that's not an inherent aspect of time-travel.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.
Either way, it's indicated that there are multiple contradicting forms of time travel: the Ministry's hour Time Turners, Nott's prototype, and the perfected Time Turner. They all have slightly different rules, and thus we have Timey-Wimey Ball.
The preview period is going to last an entire month. I know that people are anxious to post about tropes related to the various spoilers. And let's be honest, simply locking the page is going to piss off more people than it will help.
We can't really do much to stop the spoilers. But we can contain them.
I have set up https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Sandbox/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild
as a spoiler trope section. Everything will be under spoiler tags, including trope names, and it will be reincorporated into the main pages once the play properly opens.
If you want to post something about a major plot spoiler so you don't forget about it come July 30th, put it in there.
If you see someone posting something spoilery in one of the main pages, please remove it and put in the sandbox instead of deleting it outright.
Edited by theenglishman
19+17=36. Harry is described as middle-aged. So, is 36 middle-aged ? I'm seriously asking.
Hide / Show Replies