[HPforGrownups] (Time Turner)

[Muridae]

No: HPFGUIDX 32888

Stephanie Jura wrote:

>Brian Yoon <Seiryuu_Avatar at msn.com> wrote:
>
>>How is Hermione able to use the Time-Turner to go to all her classes?  If
>>she is using them to attend them at the same time, then wouldn't she be
>>seen
>>by the other classmates of her class (in fact, she is, seeing that Ron
>>talks
>>about her classmate seeing her talking to the professor)?  If she could use
>>the Time-Turner, why doesn't she use it over and over during the same
>>time-period at night so she could study AND sleep at the same time?
>
>Using the Time Turner to study and sleep might be regarded as abuse of the
>thing: taking more classes is one thing, but using it to get more study time
>gives Hermione an unfair edge over her classmates.

Additionally... where would she do the extra sleeping and studying? Use 
her own bed? Nope, no room for Hermione2 there, because Hermione1 is 
already in occupation. And, while it's possible for her to sneak off 
into a corridor she already vetted as empty the first time through the 
loop in order to turn back an hour to double-time her classes, it's more 
difficult to do the same thing when it's the library, the common room, 
or her dormitory she needs access to. They're all rooms she shares with 
the students who are in both sets of classes she's doing, and it greatly 
increases the chances that someone will notice her extra comings and 
goings, or even that she'll run into herself.

She can't even time turn a third loop so that she can sneak up to her 
dormitory to sleep during the daytime, because there's always the risk 
that Lavender or Parvati will pop back up there to fetch something in 
the interval between classes and catch her. And the same applies to both 
the common room and the library.

I think it's entirely possible that once or twice she's been so 
exhausted that she's found a cupboard or an empty classroom somewhere 
and curled up for a couple of hours, but it won't have been comfortable 
and she'd always have had a guilty, hunted feeling about doing it. 
There's also the very real possibility that she'll be so tired that 
she'll sleep beyond the hour or so that the timetable offers her before 
she has to turn up to a non-elective class again. So I'm not sure that 
she would have considered it as cheating, particularly, to have 
time-turned again for those reasons, just that it was impractical enough 
that she didn't receive any real benefit from it. As we know, the 
practical solution was to give up the subject that she was getting least 
from at Easter, and to drop down to the same number of classes as the 
rest of the students at the end of the year.

-- 
Muridae