

In ep. 10, Homura's wish is revelaed:

> "I want to redo my meeting with Kaname-san. Instead of being protected by
> her, I want to protect her!"

This wish forced her to go back in time and re-live the month since her
meeting with Madoka 100-ish times.

But in the end of the main timeline (ep.12), it is still Madoka that saves the
day

> by wishing to rescue all magic girls before they "completely" turn into
> witches.

Since the world was rebooted by Madoka's wish we briefly see events that
happened during that month, such as

> Sayaka's despair for being unable be with Kamijou, only to be rescued by
> Madoka.

I won't address the Rebellion movie in this question body, but feel free to
include it in the answers.

Since by the end of ep.12 it does not feel like Homura's wish was fulfilled,
question remains:

Was it fulfilled, if yes, when and how?


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When and How was Homura's wish fulfilled?


If you are referring to how Homura can still have her wish granted in Madoka's
Universe, one reason could be, as [Euphoric
said](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/35802/when-and-how-was-
homuras-wish-fulfilled#comment48048_35802), it's a paradox. but then again we
can say that for anything, it's more fun to see what we can infer from what we
have seen, isn't it?

The second could be what I am going to call the **_Room of Origin_** (my term,
not canon, since it has no name to my knowledge). We see the Room or Origin
twice as being the center point of the universe being created. the first time
was when Madoka recreated the universe and the second time was when Homura did
it at the end of Rebellion (in Rebellion Homura says she's been there once
before when the Incubator asks where they were). Since this is really ground
zero for the start of the new universe we can make the assumption that a part
of the old universe still exists inside the Room or Origin, serving as the
basis.

The third reason could be that Homura retained her memories and abilities
because she was key to creating Madoka's Universe. It was her terminating the
timelines that compiles Madoka's Karmic Destiny that allowed her to become a
god. In Homura's Universe Madoka regaining her memories would return her to
becoming the full Law of Cycles once more and Sayaka retaining her memories
initially could be because she is a part of the Law of Cycles as her secretary
until Homura sealed them and probably sealed Nagisa before hand (since she did
create a new life for Nagisa)


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Her wish was to protect Madoka, not for Madoka to be safe. It's open-ended and
why she is able to take effective action to protect Madoka, even when it meant
(Rebellion Story spoiler)

> rejecting salvation from an omnipresent arbitrarily-powerful deity and
> dragging a human avatar out of it

Her failures don't invalidate the wish because as long as she has the will to
go on, she can rewind and keep protecting Madoka.


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