The former is granted; better to be sure. (Though any trick that can overcome information-theoretic death has a decent chance of allowing arbitrary time travel anyway.)
The latter, however, is easily dealt with: show up under the Invisibility Cloak, hit his past self with some variant of the Confundus Charm. Since he's watched the entire 6 hours, he can be certain this will be sufficient.
... except he can't, because someone else could've pulled the same trick. Nevermind; retracted.
Though any trick that can overcome information-theoretic death has a decent chance of allowing arbitrary time travel anyway.
I do not see how that would follow at all, could you please explain?
The latter, however, is easily dealt with: show up under the Invisibility Cloak, hit his past self with some variant of the Confundus Charm.
Dumbledore has already told Harry that he tried a variant of this once and that it didn't work. "Time" didn't like that. See this quote from chapter 90:
...I asked the Headmaster to go back and save Hermione and the
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