Snape-Quirrelmort Conundrum/Time-Turner

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 39821

Debbie wrote:
> Maybe the problem is that the phrase "Time-Turner" is a misnomer.  
> Maybe a better way of describing the Time-Turner is that it creates a 
> double of the person using the Time-Turner for that period of time.  
> At 9 p.m. Harry and Hermione each split into two persons somewhere 
> around the Entrance Hall, and at midnight they merge back into one in 
> the Hospital Wing.  There aren't different atoms in the Entrance 
> Hall.  Nine o'clock only happens once, and there are two sets of 
> Hermione atoms and two sets of Harry atoms in the Entrance Hall.  
> Indeed, Harry asks Hermione if "we're here in his cupboard and we're 
> out there too?"
>
> Debbie, who could really use a Time-Turner sometimes

So we should call it from now on the time-splitter? I like it, as a 
method to describe it's effects. The only thing it doesn't contemplate 
is the fact that half of the people envolved are future versions of the 
other half involved, and thus know what's going to happen during the 
next few hours to the past half of the people. 

It has got one definite advantage, though: whatever you think of the 
TT, this description of the splitting people is the way *time* sees the 
entire bussiness with the TT: from Time's point of view, at 9 o'clock 
there are two Hermiones and two Harrys, each pair doing completely 
independent actions, and which after 12 o'clock they merge back into a 
single pair.

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf, who hopes he can remember this PoV for the next TT crisis.