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This is what I figured.
The same thing applies to prohibiting time travel in Azkaban, or allowing one person to tell another person (while giving them access to who knows what subtle face expressions) to talk to a person that the first one can't communicate with.
Which suggests that to time-travel further than 6 hours back, you'd just need to completely Obliviate yourself, wiping your mind so clean that a Remembrall in your hands would blaze like a miniature sun. Best to also take the form of an infant, since you'll be a mental one anyway.
I suddenly really hope Harry doesn't "Where did all you zombies come from" travel back to himself as an infant to destroy You-Know-Who for the second-first-only time as the end of the book, leading to his obliviated-adult-in-the-form-of-a-child brain as the cause of his "childhood" genius.
I'm in an unusual position I find hard to express!
I never considered that possibility until your comment.
The possibility is awesome and if the story had really ended that way I would've been totally satisfied, I think.
Now that you've pointed it out and I've thought about it, I'm greedy and want a different awesome ending, so
Now I agree with you and hope it doesn't end that way.
As long as the Remembrall blazes in the same way (as far as any person would notice), regardless of what you've actually forgotten.