My guess is that Hermione has already been resurrected. Her body was stolen. Harry returned from the future to a time when her body was still fresh, and took it to the future, when he has already defeated death.
If Harry gains access to arbitrarily powerful time travel (That’s how I’ve interpreted your scenario. I apologize if I’m wrong.), doesn’t that make the whole plot redundant? Can’t Harry just go back to the beginning and tell himself everything?
Well, what if even uber-time travel still has the paradox limitation. Harry figures out his becomus-goddus spell, and can go back in time arbitrarily far.
But if he mucks about with his own past in any way he doesn’t remember he may unhappen his omnipotent ass. Moreover, this is true of almost all of history. Any mucking about that might prevent his timeline from making him invincible would be verboten.
So, what could he do? Not go back and tell himself everything, it would be a big gamble that his past self could consciously fake its way through the events of his own past timeline well enough to keep him in existence.
No, he goes back and Imperiuses himself, and only interferes in his life in the manners that he recognizes must have always been his future self.
So he:
Gives himself the strange sense of certainty that makes him believe in magic in the first chapter.
Whispers to himself on the train to meet Hermione Granger.
Steals Hermione’s body (presumably what Harry did while alone with it was pointedly not observe it to leave a moment for future versions of himself to time travel in and steal it without creating a paradox)
I hope this isn’t right, but I assign a relatively high plausibility that future Harry is running behind the scenes throughout the story.
Another offhand guess, he kills Volemort in the past via his own remembered dialog. Voldemort agrees (sarcastically) with Harry’s mom that Harry is to live, she is to die, then requests she drop the wand and let him murder her. She doesn’t, and he kills her. Then he goes to kill Harry. But I don’t think “now drop the wand and let me murder you” was part of the deal.
My guess is he’s unknowingly (possibly due to time travel Harry) under some magic that makes everything he says Unbreakable, and when he kills her and then goes to kill Harry he’s killed by the oath enforcement mechanism, since he’s agreed that she’s to die and Harry is to live.
In that scenario he could become a closed timelike curve: go back, become the being that invented magic in the first place, and program it to record the brain states of everyone at every moment in there lives for future recall given a spell or ritual that he would then know. This could also explain the “Atlantis erased from time” business. It would rely on magic changing the laws of physics in a way that allows magic time travel to operate before magic existed—or for the invention of magic to have happened outside the timestream.
I would guess that the time travel would keep the restriction that he can’t change the past. So he could recover her body and resurrect her in the future, but couldn’t change the past events.
My guess is that Hermione has already been resurrected. Her body was stolen. Harry returned from the future to a time when her body was still fresh, and took it to the future, when he has already defeated death.
If Harry gains access to arbitrarily powerful time travel (That’s how I’ve interpreted your scenario. I apologize if I’m wrong.), doesn’t that make the whole plot redundant? Can’t Harry just go back to the beginning and tell himself everything?
That’s a well-established fanfiction genre, but I think its popularity is actually evidence against its use here.
On the other hand, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Peggy Sue that ended with the time-travel event rather than starting with it.
That would pretty much DELETE ALL THE PEOPLE AFFECTED and REPLACE THEM WITH DIFFERENT VERSIONS, so I don’t think Harry would do that.
Well, what if even uber-time travel still has the paradox limitation. Harry figures out his becomus-goddus spell, and can go back in time arbitrarily far.
But if he mucks about with his own past in any way he doesn’t remember he may unhappen his omnipotent ass. Moreover, this is true of almost all of history. Any mucking about that might prevent his timeline from making him invincible would be verboten.
So, what could he do? Not go back and tell himself everything, it would be a big gamble that his past self could consciously fake its way through the events of his own past timeline well enough to keep him in existence.
No, he goes back and Imperiuses himself, and only interferes in his life in the manners that he recognizes must have always been his future self.
So he:
Gives himself the strange sense of certainty that makes him believe in magic in the first chapter.
Whispers to himself on the train to meet Hermione Granger.
Steals Hermione’s body (presumably what Harry did while alone with it was pointedly not observe it to leave a moment for future versions of himself to time travel in and steal it without creating a paradox)
I hope this isn’t right, but I assign a relatively high plausibility that future Harry is running behind the scenes throughout the story.
Another offhand guess, he kills Volemort in the past via his own remembered dialog. Voldemort agrees (sarcastically) with Harry’s mom that Harry is to live, she is to die, then requests she drop the wand and let him murder her. She doesn’t, and he kills her. Then he goes to kill Harry. But I don’t think “now drop the wand and let me murder you” was part of the deal.
My guess is he’s unknowingly (possibly due to time travel Harry) under some magic that makes everything he says Unbreakable, and when he kills her and then goes to kill Harry he’s killed by the oath enforcement mechanism, since he’s agreed that she’s to die and Harry is to live.
In that scenario he could become a closed timelike curve: go back, become the being that invented magic in the first place, and program it to record the brain states of everyone at every moment in there lives for future recall given a spell or ritual that he would then know. This could also explain the “Atlantis erased from time” business. It would rely on magic changing the laws of physics in a way that allows magic time travel to operate before magic existed—or for the invention of magic to have happened outside the timestream.
I would guess that the time travel would keep the restriction that he can’t change the past. So he could recover her body and resurrect her in the future, but couldn’t change the past events.