Use of the Time-Turner to Help Sirius in PoA

[katgurl2k at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 11712

But the only reason we know that they went back and made what realy 
happen, happen was because that was the way J.K. Rowling wrote it, if 
it had been the other way around, they would have just been making 
sure again that Lupin took his potion.  And it wouldn't have affected 
things so much if only Lupin had seen them.  The big part was just so 
that the past selves did not see the ones that went back in time.  So 
they could have done this.  I think Rowling just wrote it that way so 
Harry would have to go back to the Dursley's.  We think the kid is 
just about to get a break when Sirius asks him to live with him, but 
no, something must go wrong.  Give Harry a break already!
--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> katgurl2k at y... 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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