[HPforGrownups] Re: Time-Turner

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 39922

Debbie wrote:

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.

Fiat Incantatum wrote:

>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.

I was wondering about the missed Charms class too.  But I still don't get 
it.

Think of it this way:  Hermione does this routine every day.  When she goes 
to Muggle Studies, she is missing Divination.  Then she turns over the TT, 
goes back, and goes to Divination.  I understand what Deb is saying about 
the two Hermiones, but I don't understand why she couldn't use it to go to a 
missed Charms class.

Had she kept her cool and gone back and gone to Charms, Harry and Ron (at 
least the ones in that time-thread) would remember her going to Charms.  By 
the same token, they remember her going to Divination every time, even 
though she was in both Divination and Muggle Studies; she went to one 
"first" and "then" the other, and no one in either class missed her--because 
she was there.

Before you say "but that day, she *wasn't* in Charms," let me ask:  why 
wasn't she?  There's no difference between missing a class because you got 
stressed out and accidentally went back and took a nap in your common room, 
and missing a class because you went to your other class.  In each case, you 
use your TT at the end of the period you want to re-live, and re-live it.

Amy Z
who can't keep straight where she has to be when in *one* continuum, thank 
you, so will decline to use a TT, however tempting it may be

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