SV: [HPforGrownups] Explanations please

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 8308

Kazza mazzoo wrote:

> Okay, so now what is OE?? LOL  Or is that supposed to be IE? =D
> I understand how the time turner works, but I still don't get how he
> stopped the dementors the first time round before the time turner.

It wasn't a "first time round." Harry, over with the dementors going through
it the first time, was there at *exactly the same time* as Harry, who
time-turned into the past. It all only happened once. Harry *experienced* it
twice.

Imagine a piece of thread, going straight from point A to point B, except
for a little loop. A teeny person walking along the thread would first pass
the spot where the thread overlapped itself making the loop, and then would
continue on along the loop itself, and would then again pass the spot where
the thread overlapped itself making the loop. It's only one spot, but the
teeny person was at that spot twice. The time turner makes loops in the
straight line of time.

Did that help?

--Amanda