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

[duo at dangerous-minds.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 11761

>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.

And Amanda replied:

>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.

Which then begs the snake-tail biting question, how did they know that 
they were supposed to be in two places at once? Of course, I can answer
my own question by saying that there's nothing stopping you from being
two places at once as long as it can't be observed that you WERE in two
places at once. But this sounds rather awkward, anyone have any better
ideas?

Excuse me while I get the Bonamine... @_@

Nathan
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