[HPforGrownups] Re: Use of the Time-Turner to Help Sirius in PoA

[Rina Stewart]

No: HPFGUIDX 11696

kat wrote:

<<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.>>

Understanding and explaining time travel is always so hard. LOL This is my take. We know that Lupin didn't take his potion. They know that. We all saw what happened because of it. However, we don't know that when they heard the swing of the ax at Hagrid's that it wasn't the guy swinging the ax is frusteration like they know he did in their second time around. In fact, we can pretty much entirely say that that IS what happened. Don't forget, in the first time, Harry saw himself. That means that what they did the second time is what happened at the same time as the first. When they time traveled, Harry understood that he had seen himself earlier, because that second time he saw his firsttime self with Hermione and the Dementors. So they didn't exactly change time as much as do what was meant to happen and what would happen.

So Lupin getting the potion would have changed all of the events, while H&H going back is what had already happened or what had been fated to happen.

Gosh, I think I confused myself, and I knew what I was saying. Does that make sense to anyone else?

Rina
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