The "Missing 24-hours" - an alternative take

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 42448

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "R. MacDonald" <Caliway26 at n...> wrote:
>   [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.

That's right -- they would have changed history by NOT going! So um-- 
they were supposed to do it. They did it and they had done it before. 
Dumbledore told them to do it (because he knew it was so). Their 
lives simply did a little circle in time.

R. McDonald:
  
>   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?
 
Well, for your first question:

a) it's magic and we can't except our physics to apply.
      b) If he had, Voldemort wouldn't have been defeated
      c) Of all the very *bad* things that have happened, we as 
mankind have hopefully learned something.
      d) Changing the course of history would have some terrible 
consequences - as Hermione tells Harry & Ron - though it only becomes 
in form or rules like "You must not be seen".
      e) It's not a matter of ability but of 'right'.
      f) Every choice, act etc. will make a difference. It would no 
longer be the same world - as you can't step into the same river 
twice...

What comes to using Time Turner to document things-- well, perhaps - 
but I doubt it. We saw what it did to Hermione - and Dumbledore seems 
much too alert, awake, nice and not grumpy enough to be using Time 
Turner. Instead, he uses experience assisted with Pensieve, logical 
thinking - some form of magic unknown, a looking-glass or something 
and House-elves, teachers, students and possibly some others who come 
and tell him everything, as well as newspapers (Muggle and Wizard)...

-- Finwitch