[HPforGrownups] Re: Time-Turner

[Fiat Incantatum]

No: HPFGUIDX 39900

On 14 Jun 2002 at 0:28, elfundeb at aol.com wrote:

> But from everyone else's perspective, there's only one outcome of the last 
> hour, and that's that Hermione attended all three classes simultaneously.  
> Because the present unfolding of events takes into account an event that will 
> happen in the future, i.e., that at the end of the hour Hermione *will* use 
> the TT and repeat the hour.  Under the time-turner concept, time itself is 
> omniscient.
> 
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> 
> Well, no, there's only one history, it involved HH1 and HH2 acting 
> simultaneously.  HH1 see Harry2 and HH2 see HH1, so we know there's only one 
> sequence of events.  And neither one of them is dead.  And in the same 
> manner, each class period was only held once, but Hermione1 attended 
> Divination, Hermione2 attended Arithmancy, etc.

Something that I think hasn't been mentioned that supports this is the 
missed Charms class.  When Hermione misses a Charms class, Ron and Harry 
know about it and ask her where she went, since she'd been right next to 
them when they reached the door.  Since at that point she'd already 
missed it, she couldn't then use the TT to go back and attend it, no 
matter how awful missing a class might seem to her. 


  
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