Use of the Time-Turner to Help Sirius in PoA

[katgurl2k at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 11695

They were messing with time regardless, my only point was why 
couldn't they do it just in a different way.  They changed events by 
making sure that Buckbeak wasn't killed.  Why couldn't they have gone 
and made Lupin take his potion while he was alone, and it wouldn't 
have interfered any more than they did in the book.

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., A B <old_wych at y...> wrote:
> They weren't allowed to be seen the second time
> through those three hours. How could they have made
> Lupin take his potion without being seen? They also
> weren't supposed to change anything that had already
> happened. Dumbledore says something to the effect that
> they can't mess around with events they know have
> happened because it will effect the outcome in unknown
> ways. Thus they cannot be seen or interact with
> anyone.
> 
> --- katgurl2k at y... wrote:
> > Could someone maybe help me with this?  Harry and
> > Hermione use the 
> > Time-Turner to go back three hours to help Sirius
> > and Buckbeak 
> > escape.  The whole reason the original plan of takin
> > Sirius and Peter 
> > to the Ministry did not work was because Lupin did
> > not take his 
> > potion and he turned into a werewolf.  Wouldn't it
> > have made more 
> > sense to go back to before they went to the
> > Shrieking Shack and make 
> > sure that Lupin took his potion?  Then they would
> > have been able to 
> > keep Peter and it would have been sorted out so that
> > Harry could have 
> > gone to live with Sirius.  It doesn't make sense.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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