Time Turners

[Christina Campbell]

No: HPFGUIDX 30288

Hi, I'm a newbie (but an old fan...). Nice to meet you all, and 
wouldn't my sister (she's 16) just love this group. She's got a 
"Penseive" 33 pages long with book quotes she thinks will be important 
in the future plus a list of all adult wizards named in the books and 
a timeline! That said, I'm not nearly as obsessed as she as, although 
I can come close sometimes...

On this topic...

> >  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.
> 
> 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!"


I don't think so. Hermione's been using the Time Turner all year. 
Surely her first thought on seeing another version of herself would be 
"Oops, my future self just messed up and let me see me."

On the topic of changing history, I don't think they did. Of course, 
this is the whole "what happens in time-travel" problem. Either they 
changed history or they didn't, but if you go back and read very 
carefully both the first and second version of events, everything fits 
in nicely for there only being one line events. They were there twice 
from both points of view, they just misinterpreted events the first 
time around.

The only problem with this is why didn't Lupin see two versions of 
Harry and Hermione on the Marauder's Map?

--Christina C.