MIND THE PAWS!

And I'm about 90% sure that Ron travels back in time by walking into the temporal anomaly in the Time Room in the Department of Mysteries where all the time turners are trapped in a loop falling endlessly for all eternity. Even with the knowledge his future self has given him, this is obviously a desperate act with unknown consequences and no way back. Ronbledore is the bravest of us all.

Is his first year at Hogwarts the first year in Ron's timeline, or the first year in HOGWART'S timeline?

Ronbledore tells young Harry these stories to teach him how to be. He's saying that if he knew that a small child would become a dark wizard, HE WOULD GO BACK AND STOP IT.

Ron goes back in time to save his friend (and one true love) Harry Potter from becoming a dark wizard.

Right, the massive and important Weasely family that he lost when he travelled in time, and he lied because he couldn't very well tell Harry about time travel but he said socks because socks to him are the symbol of the humble love of his humble family.

Inspired by the comment just above - in case you were wondering, the instructions from Dumbledore to Ron on what he was supposed to do vis a vis time travel and looking after young Harry were magically contained inside the Deluminator he gives to Ron in his will.

From the Harry Potter wiki:

"Most importantly, Ron used the Deluminator to find Harry and Hermione after temporarily abandoning them in the autumn and winter of 1997. [...] While Ron was glum about Dumbledore's apparent prediction that he would leave his friends, Harry pointed out that it meant Dumbledore knew he would always want to come back
Ron would leave his friends... but he would always come back. Back... in time??!! ALWAYS come back, because time is a circle! Marooned in time he can never go BACK to his friends!!

Ronbledore is forever!
Friendship is forever!
Love can never be put out!!

Ron is living in denial when he marries Hermione. He gets mixed up because the three of them are always together, and there's big emotions that you feel for a girl when she saves your life and you save hers, but that doesn't mean you're IN love with her. He thinks he has romantic feelings for her, but actually, his true love... is Harry.

Dumbledore always has this kind of wistful sadness around him (especially around Harry). Its exactly how I'd expect to feel if you saw the love of your life again for the first time in 50 years, knowing that you could never tell him the truth, knowing that you were about to put him through hell, knowing that you are going to die before seeing him through the other side of his trials.

His story about Grindlewald is true, but it's actually an parable for Harry that's secretly ABOUT Harry. Harry is the powerful wizard who Ronbledore loved, who didn't return his affection. Dumbledore uses this story, and others, to entreat Harry against the dangers of giving in to a dark side, the side that comes from not caring about friends or other people. The main reason Ron goes back in time is to try to prevent Harry from becoming a dark wizard after defeating Voldemort.

Ron's marriage to Hermione also explains how Dumbledore gets to be the greatest wizard of his age - he's learned all the state-of-the-art future magic that his magic-prodigy wife is going to sublimate her sexual frustration into creating.

The thing with moving the taser... I almost try to find some other reason or some sort of excuse for it cos it's like... it took him SECONDS to decide to do that. He didn't panic, he didn't cook up a scenario with his lawyer over the course of hours or days, it took him only a handful of moments to know exactly what his cover story was gonna be and to start arranging evidence to back it up.

In the 70s and 80s (and maybe still today, IDK), I have read that it was a widespread unofficial standard operating procedure among police officers to secretly carry a "drop piece" - a cheap gun or knife that they could drop at the scene of an officer shooting to back up a story of self defence - the weapon that the slain was reaching for should he inconveniently happen not to be armed. To my mind, that's a policy of premeditated homicide - proof that institutionally, officers were planning to disregard rules that they were to shoot only as a last resort/in extreme danger. I imagine the advice to carry a drop piece is something you learn from an older officer or a mentor. In the same way, I imagine the culture of the police changing enough that "he went for my taser" would become the go-to excuse - planned in advance, passed on as common institutional knowledge in the same way, ready enough in the mind that one doesn't have to think of what to do but just to remember it. Maybe Slager is just a quick thinker, IDK.

Fuck yeah!

I wish I had half your awesome.

I don't know what to say but I felt like I had to say something. Thank you.