Time Travel

This is a blog I just posted on my Buffed Film Buff Instagram, but I decided to share it with this crowd too since there was just a talk about Arrival as well.

Watching Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) again, because it's freaking amazing, and again I'm trying to help myself understand the timeline. If the theory in Harry Potter is that the present time and when you travel back in time is part of an overlapping timeline, then why does Dumbledore say they might be able to save more than one innocent life? I know the whole point is to go back in time to rescue Sirius and save Buckbeak, but if that's part of the same timeline then isn't it fate that that's gonna happen? That rescuing Sirius is inevitable because when they travel back in time they already know he is going to be saved due to their actions? Then I know the present and future cannot see each other, but when Hermione threw a stone to warn Harry in Hagrid's hut it shows that the future has an effect on the past, not vis versa. So if this stays true than that means that the past literally has no effect on the future if the future people have a time turner, meaning that any issue can be fixed? I am not even following my own thoughts, but a couple of questions. Do you have a good explanation for this timeline theory in PoA? Also, what is your favorite use of time travel in film?

@buffed_film_buff haha I don't know if anyone could ever explain time travel. I think it is impossible to explain time travel with out any plot holes. Per your second question though, here are some of my favorite time travel films.

• Back to the Future (1985), Back to the Future Part II (1989), Back to the Future Part III (1990)
• About Time (2013)
• Looper (2012)
• Groundhog Day (1993)
• Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

I personally prefer films that just accept time travel and try not to explain it because I truly don't think it can fully be explained.

Great thread!

My favorite is Interstellar (2014). Very complicated, but absolutely amazing!

@buffed_film_buff it is really confusing and isn't explained well. Though I believe that everything in that timeline is the same, but Hermoine and Harry must go back in time in order to ensure that the timeline goes as plan. That's why in the 'original' timeline Harry still sees the patronus because it's just him in the future, and how buckbeak actually doesn't die in either timelines we just hear the axe falling and the crows fly away. However, Harry and Hermonine from the past didn't know any of this. I hope this makes it a little clearer, but in truth I don't even know.

@buffed_film_buff it is really confusing and isn't explained well. Though I believe that everything in that timeline is the same, but Hermoine and Harry must go back in time in order to ensure that the timeline goes as plan. That's why in the 'original' timeline Harry still sees the patronus because it's just him in the future, and how buckbeak actually doesn't die in either timelines we just hear the axe falling and the crows fly away. However, Harry and Hermonine from the past didn't know any of this. I hope this makes it a little clearer, but in truth I don't even know.

@JR_hagan yeah, I know I'm overthinking it, but what would happen if they decided it was too dangerous to travel back in time? Would it have caused an entire rupture in time? These are probably questions for JK Rowling that even she can't explain. Time travel is confusing.