Time Turners

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No: HPFGUIDX 30228

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Rhonda" <brainmaggot at y...> wrote:
> Question:
> I have just finished Prisoner of Azkaban and want to know what 
would 
> have really happened if Harry and Hermione had seen their alternate 
> selves after turning back time and waiting for Sirius to be 
> imprisoned?  The whole outcome depended on them having to have had 
to 
> turn back time in the first place right, because the only way Harry 
> defeated the Dementors, was because he was able to conjur a 
Patronus 
> the second time.  The Second Harry knew that he wasn't supposed to 
> have been seen or horrible consequences would occur, yet he WAS 
seen 
> by the First Harry who mistook him for his father.  Just because he 
> mistook him for his father doesn't have any bearing on the fact 
that 
> he was seen and more importantly realized what happened the second 
> time around. Apparently nothing happened with the exception that he 
> carried the knowledge from both timelines, so why couldn't Harry 
have 
> turned back time again with Hermoine and thwarted the whole thing 
> from get go by giving Scabbers to Crookshanks, saving Buckbeak and 
> possibly cleanly clearing Sirius' name, or am I thinking about this 
> too much :) ?  Please ignore this thread if it's been brought up 
> before.

You must not attempt to change history. Consecuenses would be serious.
Seeing yourself, well... Harry figured being his father, but...
Hermione I seeing Hermione II would think: "Someone is using 
Polyjuice to get me in trouble or to kill!"