I read somewhere jim is planing on doing a miorror mirror book which ends my my one time line theory (like i said b4 i belive the harrys subconsious time travel theory any ways) this would however have to be the result of breaking one of the laws a parodx event being the most likely at least to my mind please excuse any misspelling my tablet has no spell check and i am dyslexic

yes starshine u r correct in my take on this and while i don't actual believe this is the path that will be taken( i believe the harry's subconscious is harry time traveling theory) if it was going to happen the way it works best for me is if we view time not as a multitude of time lines but as  a fixed plain. if we look at it like this then this theory whether it is mab sending harry back to retrieve the knife or the gatekeeper sending harry back is immaterial to the point which is the only way harry can go back in time is if he has already done so (or will have done so in the future, time travel makes tenses very confusing,) and he must figure out what he did but not change anything else paradox and BOOM this i y every one doesn't do it the risk out ways the profit which is none considering if u change anything u end all but if harry did it then he can do it.


Addressing the believability aspect we r talking about a book that the protagonist regularly does thing that r imposable in real life so what i say is make me belive it can happen in his world or not so long as it is a good story who cares if it is unrealistic after all it is fanatsy

The way you set it out, it does make sense and it could fit, but I kind of hope you're wrong  because Im not a great fan of time travel stories.  Ive never read one that I found believeable.

Even in the context of s-f, I have trouble believing the past is something you can go back into and change.  Once you allow that, there is no real present.  I mean, what would stop Cowl from going back in time and preventing the fall of the Red Court?  Or stealing the Book of Kemmler and completing the Darkhaven?  Or coming prepared to attack Gard and hold her off long enough for him to kill Harry?  Im using Cowl as an example, but Im sure he's not the only powerful entity on the BC.

I dont know - I just think once you allow the possibility of changing the past - why wouldnt everybody do it?

but that is the elegance of harry time traveling in that theory he doesn't change any thing just enact the parts that allowed him to do what he did the first time and that would be a somewhat acceptable breaking of the law cause he all ready did it so for him not to would cause a paradox just my opinion

Now if mab had any deal with the black circle i would guess that it would be to negate the influence of the knife (i am dyslexic and cant spell the "a" word)in exchange for her keeping pressure on the summer court  but i doubt she did she is to smart for that

i think maybe he will be to old but it is his voice i hear when i read the novels and i cant picture harry as any one else