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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.
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All the twists and turns of time travel in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azakaban are fun, but understanding them is also hard.For example, how does Harry get past the Dementor attack so that he can time travel latter and save himself from the Dementor attack?Isn't that impossible?Richard Jones explains how this might in fact be possible and examines more generally how time travel works in the book, along with its problems.For example, did Harry and Hermione change history?Did Harry and Hermione have free will for what they did or were their actions fixed in advance?If we can time-travel to save Sirius and Buckbeak, why can't we time-travel to save others?What did Professor Dumbledore know and when did he know it?Did Hermione get younger by all her time-traveling during the school year?Jones answers these and many other questions.He also extensively discusses fans' competing theories of how time travel works in the Prisoner of Azakaban.Also included is a brief introduction to the theories of time and time travel in physics and philosophy that are utilized in science fiction and other time travel stories, along with a bibliography of relevant works.Do physicists and philosophers think time is real?Is time-travel possible at all?Can we in fact change the past?After finishing this book, you will have a much greater understanding of both J. K. Rowling's work and a better appreciation of the problems of time and time-travel in general.
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