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Time Travel and Harry Potter: Time-Turning in the Prisoner of Azkaban and its Place in Time-Travel Fiction

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Time Travel and Harry Potter

By Richard H. Jones

Outskirts Press, Inc.

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Time Travel and Harry Potter, explains what the original Harry Potter books did not tell you. As a fan of Harry Potter and characters, I was happy to review this book. I have never thought of a fan to write such an indescribable book. I have reread the original Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban along with this book and found it to be easier. It is made as a reference book for the series of Harry Potter books, wrote by J.K. Rowling. It explains the different scenarios that the original books established for its readers. Richard goes into exact details about the different times, that are made possible with the time-turner. A lot of questions are answered that were not in the originals.

Many book make the idea of changing the past unbelievable but this book has showed it to be almost possible. You can actually make believe the story is real with all the details this book describes. Nothing is more frustrating then other writers trying to prove the knowledge behind the work of others in fiction, when fiction is not real to begin with. Richard Jones, made the book a great read as he did not try and prove that the original story was not plausible since it was fiction to begin with.

The best part of the book is where Richard Jones, included a bibliography giving for the informational purposes, to any who would like to read other books as well. I absolutely love this book and plan to buy more to give as gifts to others. This book is a great accessory for anyone, no matter their age as long as they like the Harry Potter series.

I have to say that, in the end, I would recommend this book to everyone wanting their questions answered or more details. The main idea of this book, was to give the in between the lines, details and that is exactly what it did. I believe that anyone reading this book, could understand the Harry Potter trilogy the first time around, and can get anyone to become a lover of Harry Potter fiction.

Is it possible to go back in time and make changes to history? Time Travel and Harry Potter - Time-Turning in the Prisoner of Azkaban and its Place in Time-Travel Fiction says it is. Richard H. Jones presents a defense of changing history in time travel, as he puts forward a theory of why and how history was changeable in The Prisoner of Azkaban. How else was Harry able to save himself? How else were Harry and Hermione going to be able to save Buckbeak?

First it must be realized that J.K. Rowling's book is both magic and fiction, and as such her words must be accepted as true in the world of the book. Theorists for hundreds of years have spouted many theories about time and the possibilities that could or could not occur in time travel. Working on this level, the laws of physics are necessarily employed. What does that mean when one thinks of time? Is time from the present going back to the past a straight line? Perhaps, but in this book, the author explores what the possibilities would be if we take Ms. Rowling's words as true in the world she has created.

I found this book quite interesting considering the theories that are argued. I am not a physicist, I am a reader, and therefore while reading I live in the created world of the author. Richard Jones has taken a complicated subject and made it readable. Time travel in this world of wizardry and magic, according to Jones, presents us not just with the possibility that we can change the past, but he also brings forward the equally questioned theory of new time lines created while the old time line remains. Hence, while time traveling to and from the past three times, if I understand this theory correctly, Harry and Hermione would create three time lines, each line leaving them ignorant of their other selves living their lives on their current time lines..

In this book, the author covers a lot of ground, cites many references, and ties the loose ends together cohesively in regard to Ms. Rowling's books. Since time travel is in The Prisoner of Azkaban, that is the book that Jones bases most of this theory on, but he also references later books in the series to help his hypothesis. All in all, I do feel he got his many points across and I'm sure Harry Potter fans will enjoy the way J.K. Rowling inserted time travel into the books and made them believable. I am a great fan of the Harry Potter books and J.K. Rowling, and Richard Jones' book has given a good frame of reference that could be considered an aid to the Potter books, presenting what wording was used and where it fits into his theory.

Disclaimer: I was given this book to review. My review is my own, I was not influenced in any way.

I'm a fan of the Harry Potter books and movies, so I was eager to review this book. The author Richard Jones is a fan of Harry Potter, too, and has written this Literary Criticism/Philosophy book. While reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azakaban by J. K. Rowling, Richard, and many other fans wondered, how does time travel work in the novel?

The author goes in detail about different time travel/time-line scenarios that could explain how Harry and Hermione changed the past with the Time-Turning. Richard also examines the time-line events that occurred in the novel from 8:55 PM to 11:55 PM causing there to be two different versions of Harry and Hermione, one version is in the regular timeline while the other version came from another part of time to change the events. How can all this be possible?

Most science fiction novels, suggest that time is fixed and cannot be changed. Then, how did Harry and Hermione change the events? And how could Hermione use the Time-Turner over and over again to get to class without making multiple copies of her? The author answers theses questions and much more?

It's been years since I have read Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, but I have seen the movie numerous times. I never thought much about the time traveling in it, until I read Time Travel and Harry Potter. The author easily explains how the time travel works in the Potterverse. I found this to be an interesting read and recommend it to Harry Potter fans.

Excellent. The author explains very clearly how time travel works in the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (POA). He looks closely at what Rowling actually wrote -- unlike most fans writing at fan forums who import a theory from science fiction and force it on the story regardless of what Rowling actually said. (I'm not a sci fi fan and so I skipped the material on the philosophy and physics of time travel and just focused on the POA material.) He shows from many different angles how time travel works in the story and how the common theory fans present can't work here at all. At the end of the book, he also adds lots of small points connected to time in the POA which I never noticed. When I reread the POA I got a lot more out of it after reading this book.