Time turner - how dont they know?

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 39799

Edis wrote:
> Something bothering me about the TT.
> 
> In order to get the TT and do extra lessons Hermione has to gets 
> special permission from the Ministry and make some pretty specific 
> promises. mcG had to write lots of letetrs to get the TT depolyment 
> agreed.
> 
> The concept of a TT must therefore be known to at least some schools 
> staff and ministry officials and is likely to be known to others 
> apart from McG and Dumbledore.
> 
> But when in PoA Snape is screaming angry about the escape of Sirius, 
> Dumbledore cuts his tirade short asking how  Snape can suggest Harry 
> can be in two places at once ... and the Minister himself doesn't 
> take this point up. And does McG query what is or could have been 
> going on when Hermione returns the TT at the end of the book? No 
> suspicions? 
> 
> Confundus!
> 
> Edis

I'd imagine that the responsability for giving TimeTurners (TTs) fall 
in a specific branch of the MoM, and that the problem, although 
serious, is more a case of paper-shuffling and burocracy than asking 
the Minister for explicit permission. Thus, is very possible that Fudge 
didn't know about the TT, or if he did, he only knew that one had been 
given out. Since he is, nonetheless, a petty politician who has reached 
his optimun level of incompetence, he probably doesn't know or care who 
received the TT, and hopes that, like all his other problems, it will 
resolve on it's own.

Resuming: the information of the TT never got as high as Fudge. It is 
lost in the buroracy of the MoM.

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf, who believes that Eloise has found a real FLINT in the 
Quirrell thread.