Time-Turner

[lizbot1981]

No: HPFGUIDX 39954

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> 
> 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.  

This doesn't quite make sense to me (but then, time travel is a tough 
topic).  It seems to me that Hermione is never missing Divination.  
She goes to muggle studies and then uses the TT to go to divination, 
yes, but while she's in muggle studies, she's in divination at the 
same time - she's an hour older, but the same Hermione, at the same 
time.  (what's in my head is hard to express thru typing)  So she's 
not missing in a class before she goes back and attends it - she's 
there, because she used the TT, while she sits in her first class at 
the same time.  I guess it depends on how you look at it - I'm seeing 
time as being on one line, not different threads, and Hermione can 
jump to different points on the line at will.  If that's a decent way 
of looking at time, she couldn't have re-taken her charms class, 
because it had already happened without her - but, hmm.  Maybe I'm 
wrong.  I've just confused myself.  Hope this makes some bit of 
sense...
Liz
 
> 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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