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

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 11704

katgurl2k at yahoo.com 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.

The best answer to this is, I think, the one that someone gave earlier
to another time-turner question: they didn't do it because they hadn't.
If they'd have gone back and had Lupin take his potion, the effect would
have been that he'd taken it the first time around, and there would have
been no impetus for them to go back in time--nothing for them to fix. As
the book stands, they didn't go back and *change* anything; they went
back to make sure it happened the way it actually happened. for the
events to take place as they did, they had to have been there both as
originally experiencing it and as time-turners. They changed none of the
events; they were the other half of the events that had already taken
place.

--Amanda


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