Time-turners

[jacqbeagle at bigpond.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 20537

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Lindsay Stirton <Lindsay at s...> wrote:
> 
> 
> > From: Magda Grantwich <mgrantwich at y...>
> > Reply-To: HPforGrownups at y...
> > Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:35:14 -0700 (PDT)
> > To: HPforGrownups at y...
> > 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

My understanding is that if Tom Riddle was killed now, with the use 
of a time turner, than all that he would have done would have been 
obliterated - including all of the good that resulted indirectly from 
him living (think Ripping Yarns 'the curse of the claw').

Rowena, who can get very confused by time discussions