Trusting Dumbledore/Time-Turner

[maria_kirilenko]

No: HPFGUIDX 54762

"greatlit2003" wrote:

I think that the ending of PoA was not in accordance with the rules 
JKR set initially. If Buckbeak can come back from the dead, why 
shouldn't Harry's parents be able to do so? Harry was able to save 
himself, Sirius and Hermione only after he came back from the future 
and saved himself initially. Does that make sense? How did Harry 
arrive across the lake in the first place if he was about to be 
attacked by the dementors? Logically, he should not have been able 
to save himself. I wouldn't want to dismiss this situation as 
simply "magic" because a lot of other tragedies could have been 
prevented if the victims (or their friends) had an access to a Time 
Turner. If this situation had occurred consistently in the books, I 
would have dismissed it as inexplicable. But that the fact that the 
books attempt to be logical with an occasional illogical situation 
makes me disappointed...oh well. The story is great anyway :)

Me:
We've had a discussion about Time-Turners and 'changing time' several 
times in only the last two months or so, and basically, we agreed 
that the Time-Turner, contrary to its name, does not change time, but 
creates a second version of the person using the TT and sends him/her 
back in time to *fulfill* the past. There aren't *two* timelines, and 
the past isn't changed - it's created. So, the "first time" around in 
PoA, Buckbeak didn't die, and Harry was saved from the Dementors by 
Harry himself (this actually is the piece of information the whole 
theory is based on, along with Hermione's "don't change the past"). 

Go and look at this message - it's pretty thorough, and you can 
follow the discussion up and down the thread.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/52351

It'll give you a good idea of what the Time-Turner does.

Maria