Albus, The Time Traveler

Wow, I must say this is one of the most ingenius ideas I have yet to see on this site. A nice, well thought-out, thorough theory is always nice to see.

Grindlewald (I can't spell it, I too don't have Harry Potter 1 with me, but that's 'cause I lent it to my Mum and we live a long way from each other) - that's the name of the evil wizard DD beat. I always wondered whether that information would have any tie ins to Voldy's downfall.

Well, Iread it all and I think that it makes sense, but then you admit that by now Dumbledore is dead and isn't coming back. You said yourself that he died a few days later. So, even if Dumbledore wasn't really killed by Snape he is still dead according to your theory, right?

I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, that you are trying to prove Snape's innocents and not that Dumbledore is alive, I think.

No, he did not die a few days later. As far as Harry is concerned, Dumbledore's life did not continue in that time, but he did not die. Nothing about Dumbledore is so simple.

Oh, we know that Snape is innocent. That's ancient history. The only question that remains is, "How did Dumbledore know that he could trust Snape." The answer is that he knows because the Time Traveler told him so.

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It's like "The Six Blind Men and the Elephant." Everybody was right. Everybody had a piece of the truth, but we couldn't make the seemingly contradictory elements cooperate. I've been saying all along that "It's all in there. We just need to put it together." Like the fake Moody telling Harry, "Go with your strengths... A simple spell to get you what you need... Put it together...It's not that difficult." Dumbledore is dead, but he didn't die.

As I have said, he never needed to lie. He did need to work hard on certain puzzles because he honestly did not know the answers. He was always calm, always seemed to know what to do, as though he knew something that no one else did. Well, he did know something. He knew that his hand was still healthy, which meant that the current situation was not his last. He knew that the Time Traveler would step in before things got out of hand. He knew that, if something bad did happen, it was the lesser of the potential evils and the best of all possible worlds.

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My son sneered. “Maybe she can write another book about his adventures through time.”

“What adventures?” I asked. He knows everything now. He’s just delivering messages.”

"Ah, but he will still have obsticles. He’ll need to fight the Time Hydra…”
(Impersonation of a snarling monster.)

"And he’ll get to meet Eddy!”
(from “The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”
Ford mentioned “Eddys in time…” and Arthur asked, “Who’s Eddie?)

“Eddie’s in time,” said my son.
“So I’ve heard,” said I.

My kid was kidding but I like the idea…

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If the Time Traveler theory didn’t give you a headache, try this one:

Fawkes was never born and will never die.

Dumbledore's life has a beginning and an end. It begins, it plays out, it folds back on itself, loops around and runs parallel to itself for a little while, and then it ends.

Fawkes' life is just one, big, very lopsided, temporal loop.
The Time Traveler drops off Fawkes with the young Dumbledore, and Fawkes starts the whole thing over.
Not a spiral, but one seemless loop, without beginning or end.
He is still an animal and I’m not sure how his mind works, but whatever Fawkes knows, he always knows and has always known and will always know. Dejavu forever, every waking minute. (spell?)

Your Fawkes theory is confusing but not Headache confusing. I get it. lol
I think.

I have mixed feeling about the idea that Dumbledore is using a timeturner at all, but here are my thoughts for now.
I don't know about that. People know about timeturners. It's not like they are a secret, so mentioning them in his memoirs wouldn't necessarily have any negative effect.
The whole point in him faking his death would be for Voldemort to think he is dead when he is actually not. What purpose would this serve if he was dead just a few days later anyway?

Dumbledore might not have wanted people to know that he went back in time after he faked his death, ya kno.

When would Dumbledore have gotten the Time-turner? It would have had to have been before the 5ht year at Hogwarts right?

"Merlin\'s beard, no," said Dumbledore, smiling. "Not unless you are foolish enough to force me to."[/i][/b]

That scene works now. Actually, I suspect that this was one of the few times when the Time Traveler hung around during the action itself.
He does not, if you will remember, need a cloak to become invisible. And he can be as handy as anyone with those non-verbal spells and with Legilimency.

I neglected to mention that the main purpose of the memoirs is that he needed to take careful notes for himself, during the first round, his 150-year, natural life. This will allow the Time Traveler to know when to drop in on his stroll back through time. 150 years is a lot to remember. And, since he had them anyway, why not drop off the sanitized version with someone like McGonagall?
Or rather, in this new-and-improved-thanks-to-Aberforth-version, give it to Harry.

Throw me some more. It just keeps getting better.

Nicholas Flamel owned the Philosopher's Stone. His wife was still alive too, but I'll need my Mum to finish reading book one and return it to me next time I go to see her to find out what her name was.