The "Missing 24-hours" - an alternative take

darrin_burnett bard7696 at aol.com
Sat Aug 10 15:16:28 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 42417

Grey Wolf wrote:

> 
> I'd like to see what canon, if any, you're basing yourself in, 
since  right now the theory is so shacky I cannot buy it. You mention 
that the fact that Time-Turners exist opens the possibility of 
traveling into the future, but I don't buy it; in fact, notice that 
the time-turners  *only* allow returning into the past, to live 
through a time you've already been through a second time. It is *not* 
a time-travel device.


There IS no canon for that 24 hours, that's the point. So, to ask for 
canon for those theories is a feint, because none exists. There are 
only clues. 

And where in canon is the "fact" that the Time-Turner only allow 
returning to the past? Just because that's all they've done doesn't 
mean that's all they can do. And who's the say there isn't a Time-
Speeder or something like that that specifically is for the future? 

And of course a Time-Turner is a time-travel device. I agree it 
probably can't go back 3000 years (and since it's one turn an hour, 
who'd want to turn it 26,280,000 times anyway?) but it's still a time-
travel device.

 
 > Appart from the time turner device, too, you give no further 
evidence  of the ability of Hagrid to use the powerful magic that I 
feel would be needed to catapult him, a baby and a motorcycle into 
the future. 

A talented witch with two years experience (remember, Hermione got it 
at the beginning of third-year) was able to use it to go into the 
past. We're only talking about 24 hours here. There is no evidence at 
all that you need extra magic ooomph -- apart from normal magic 
ability, which Hagrid does have -- to make it work.

And SHE DID give evidence as to Hagrid's magical ability. He 
disappeared so quickly from Harry in SS/PS that she speculated he 
could apparate and disparate. Pg 66, PS UK, Hagrid vanished in the 
time it took Harry to blink. Hagrid does have magic ability, that's 
been proven over and over again. 

It is indeed less focused, but there is no evidence it has less raw 
power than the average wizard's ability.

<snip all the reasons why Hagrid was the best choice, because that 
wasn't questioned by Ali's theory, so it was pointless to rebut it in 
the first place. She just proposed a different way Hagrid hid, which 
is through time>
 
> No, I don't see how your theory can hold water, especially when 
we've  got a much more sensible theory: Hagrid went into hiding and 
kept the  baby low-key during that day someplace he knew the DEs (or 
anyone else> for that matter) wouldn't look for him. I'd say his 
father's old house > or some island far from the coast, or some other 
place where he could find feed for the baby without risking being 
seen.


More sensible theory? C'mon, Ali put forth an imaginative theory that 
isn't contradicted at all by the limited canon we have and the 
limited knowledge we have of how a Time-Turner works. 

There is hardly any canon for how at TT works, only speculation by 
people who enjoy dissecting Time Travel fiction without remembering 
that just because Ray Bradbury and H.G. Wells had certain theories 
doesn't mean JKR has to follow them.

Hope THAT helps,

Darrin
-- Until OoP comes out, one theory is as good as another





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