Time Turner

[serenadust <jmmears@comcast.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49118

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Laura <metslvr19 at y...>" 

> While we're on the topic, who was horribly frustrated that ALL 
year 
> Harry and Ron NEVER caught on???  She's scheduled for 2 classes, 2 
> exams at once, Ron overhears people talking about her being in 
> Arithmancy while he "knows" she hasn't been there yet....and they 
> never piece it together.  They keep asking her but they never 
figured 
> it out.  I was so frustrated...I mean, they live in the WIZARDING 
> world.  There's this thing called MAGIC!  *deep breath*  I'm 
sorry, 
> it just drove me crazy to see that Harry and Ron, for how bright 
> they're supposed to be, never thought that there might be a 
magical 
> method of time travel. *end of Laura's rant*

I shared your frustration, too!  At least Ron was curious about how 
she was doing all these classes simultaneously, and even seems to 
have discussed her schedule with Ernie McMillan.  Harry doesn't even 
seem to take more than a passing interest in how she's doing this.  
Maybe time-turners are very rare in the WW and Ron has simply never 
known of their existance.  This is the only reason I can think of 
for Ron not guessing how she's doing it.  We're never 
actually "shown" her explaining the TT to Ron, so we never do "see" 
his reaction which is unfortunate because he's the one who was so 
persistently interested.  Harry, of course learned about it under 
very stressful circumstances during the Black/Buckbeak rescue, and 
just seems to accept it as one 
more thing he didn't know about in the WW.  Still, his lack of 
curiousity about how Hermione was managing her schedule was quite 
striking.

Jo Serenadust