If it did, then that's how things would go. She'd either get what was coming to her for doing things like that, or she'd realize what she did wrong and work to change.

Something I've learned from living with Lyra, Twilight: you can't go thinking about how things would go in "what ifs". Sometimes it's good to make you feel better about a mistake, but if you worry too much about the lives you could have lived, then you stop living the life you're actually living.