[HPforGrownups] Re: Time-turners

[Lindsay Stirton]

No: HPFGUIDX 20510



> From: Magda Grantwich <mgrantwich at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:35:14 -0700 (PDT)
> To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: Time-turners
> 
>> 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
> 
> How do we know someone won't?

(1) Everything we observe we observe from the perspective of the present.

(2) At the present, we observe that Tom Riddle grew up into the adult Lord
Voldemort.

Therefore (3) He was not killed as a child (regardless of whether the person
who killed him previously lived in the future, before messing with a
time-turner.

Simple logic (but then as Hermione observes in PS/SS wizards are no good at
logic).

Lindsay Stirton