[HPforGrownups] Re: The "Missing 24-hours" - an alternative take

[R. MacDonald]

No: HPFGUIDX 42433


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  From: grey_wolf_c [mailto:greywolf1 at jazzfree.com]
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: The "Missing 24-hours" - an alternative take



  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.
  You cannot go back 3000 years, take a look around and go back to your
  time. If you go back that far, you're stuck because there is no way the
  time turner will take you into the future.


  [R. MacDonald wrote]

  Hmm, Sounds a little like you're describing the "Quantum Leap" time travel
with-in the users own lifetime.  However I don't recall any reference to the
device ever being used more man a few hours back, and like you noted, only
back.  Also I don't think there was any changes to history.  Hermoine used
the device to go to more than one class in the same timeframe, but didn't
change either experience, and in saving Sirius and the Hippogriff, they
acted more around the original timeline than into it.

  Myself, I can't understand the notion of being able to move in a time, and
not alter that time, but I think we should ask the question, why, if the
technology's was available to them, didn't Dumbledore use the Time-Turner to
change the events of Lily and James Death?  Or if he couldn't change those
events, did he use the Time-Turner document the events themselves?

  Ray


  R. MacDonald
  ICQ #15170395
  Caliway26 at ns.sympatico.ca



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