IIRC She found herself transplanted into her future self, who had overcome the self-destructive part of her powers, and learned what she had done to do it, and then did it when she returned to her younger self.
Yes it's a paradox, but wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey.
It's not really a paradox. This was just a potential future Veil who had learned it on her own. So the knowledge didn't appear out of nowhere thanks to time travel, it was discovered genuinely at some point of the time-continuum; only the propagation of the knowledge used time travel.
See, that paradox is one of the reasons I love Mr. E. He's apparently the only magician in the DC Universe who can travel forward in time without restriction, and he learned how to do so from a crazy older future version of himself who walked backwards through time.
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Date: 2011-10-05 03:36 pm (UTC)Yes it's a paradox, but wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey.
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Date: 2011-10-05 03:54 pm (UTC)oh best explaination of time travel ever, when that explaination is used all is forgiven
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Date: 2011-10-05 04:44 pm (UTC)Not that I remember.
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Date: 2011-10-05 06:57 pm (UTC)Why she didn't also try to help Hazmat and Mettle... well I guess the book still needed more angst.