Literary parallels, Time Turner, Snape, misc

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No: HPFGUIDX 31716

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:
> 
> Rita:
> > I thought for a while and came up with a feeble guess: Hermione's 
Time Turner was set to put 
> her 20 feet west of where normal-time-she was (that is, where she 
had been at the time she is travelling to).<

Tabouli:
> My theory was much more simple - the Time Turner always puts her 
into the entrance hall cupboard.  The entrance hall would 
conveniently be empty for most of the day after breakfast, and is 
presumably quite central.  By discreetly making sure it was empty at 
a certain time, judicious use of the Time Turner would enable 
Hermione to use it as many "times" as she needed to.  I always 
thought she was gasping when she popped up after that class in PoA 
because she'd just run up from the Entrance Hall. > 



I think they're both good theories-- your guess is as good as mine!  
Although it can't have been programmed to put Hermione in the closet, 
because when she "arrives" with Harry, they materialize in the 
entrance hall itself, and then Hermione drags Harry into the closet. 
So maybe it's programmed to always put her in the entrance hall.  But 
if always puts her in the Hall itself, wouldn't the other students 
have seen her popping out of thin air?  However-- on second thought, 
this is wizarding school after all, they're used to things like that 
happening!  If anyone asked she could always tell them that she was 
taking Apparating lessons. 

So, do you think the time-turner can be used to go into the future?  
:)

marina