Snape fulfilling his life debt

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 42363

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "theresnothingtoit" <mi_shell16 at h...> wrote:
> Hello,
> Does anyone here think Snape will finally be redeamed by fulfilling 
> his life debt to James by using the time turner.  It seems a highly 
> *bangy* device that has only been used once and I would like to see 
> Snape redeamed in a very physical way.
> The story may be that James survived something in his past that it 
> was unknown how he did, Snape's task will be to go back in time to 
> save him.  And give up his own life in the process, perhaps.
> Hmm, I wonder if that flimsy theory will float?
> No can(n)on but I like it all the same.
> 
> Theresnothingtoit
> (There really isn't)

The trouble with Time-Turners is that only allow you, so far, to go    
*back* in time. Which means that if Snape, say in book five, used that 
method to fulfill his life debt, he *could* go back 15 or more years 
into the past, but than would have to *live* through those 15 years    
*again* to reach the moment in time when he used the Time-Turner. And 
during does years he would have to be extra-cautious to not meet 
himself. It's easy to manage in short spans of one or two hours, but 
the possibility of mangling history and the space-time continuum would 
be too big in bigger spans. And that's even without considering that 
the Time-Turner might not have enough power to go back so far in time.

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf, who agrees that there is nothing to it.