time turner and nov. 1, 1981; "The Rules"

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No: HPFGUIDX 31027

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Dave Hardenbrook <DaveH47 at m...> wrote:
> 
> I think this is more a Ministry Law than a law od nature, because 
they
> *are* seen.  Harry is seen by his past self... And someone else.
> Extra brownie points for naming the other individual who seems 
them.

Hmmm...I know that they HEAR themselves going by the broom closet. 
But who else sees them... I'm tempted to open the book and find out, 
but that would be cheating...

I agree that it's more than a law of the MOM. It's bigger than that. 
There's just too much at stake when you time travel. 

I have toyed with the idea of a time-travel trick to the whole 
overarching plot, what with the ancestor/descendent question and the 
difficulty in rectifying some parts of the stories to the timeline. 
But I agree with someone upthread who said that (and I paraphrase) 
the whole time travel plot device is just too easy and raises way 
too many questions. Nothing is permanent if you can travel through 
time, not even death, and another of JKR's rules of magic is that 
you can't raise someone from the dead, ghosts notwithstanding. I 
have no doubt that JKR will surprise us over and over in the next 
few books. Hopefully it won't be with a time travel plot again.

Steve