Time-turners

[jacqbeagle at bigpond.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 20440

Zarleycat wrote:

What are the limitations on time-turners?  How far back in time can 
one go?  Can anyone go back to any time, or does the time traveller 
have to be going back to a previous time in their own life?

Andrea wrote:
So the limitations on use of the TT would be however many times you 
want to stand there turning it (and it would take a *lot* of turns to 
go back even a week, much less years!), plus you'd have to relive all 
that time before getting back.  And you couldn't run into your past 
self at all or change the past. 
 
Hmm...maybe the Ministry has a special safehouse used by people 
waiting out their TT time. :)
 

I'm responding:

I think that there would be very strict guidelines (set by MOM or 
something higher and of international standing) on the use of the 
timeturner, not necessarily because of the TT itself, but because of 
the future consequences of any actions you may do while back in the 
past.

If there was not, why doesn't someone go back and kill Tom Riddle 
before he turned bad ?

Rowena