Time travel (was 'A new interpretation of the prophecy')

[Echa Schneider]

No: HPFGUIDX 70060


On Sunday, July 13, 2003, at 05:34 PM, jksunflower2002 wrote:

> I have this terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach that time
> travel will indeed play a role in book 6 or 7....and not for the
> good.
>
> Those warnings from both Hermione and Dumbledore in PoA lead me to
> think that someone will go mucking around with a time turner in
> order to change an event or save a life, and things will backfire
> (Ginny seemed awfully preoccupied with the bird and egg in the time
> room--foreshadowing?)
>

See, I wouldn't mind time travel being used if it ended up causing a 
catastrophe. I think that it would be an interesting narrative device 
to employ further, since JKR has already introduced it into the world.

I think that to use time travel as the ultimate solution in the books 
would be a terrible cop-out, and I think too highly of JKR to believe 
she would do something so trite. However, until I read this post, it 
hadn't occurred to me that time travel could be used without 
disappointing me. But to watch someone decide that time travel might 
pose the solution to a problem, then have that result in disastrous 
consequences, could be fun.

I do think that the presentation of the time room in the Department of 
Mysteries made some future time traveling more likely - it was a pretty 
heavy reminder that playing with time is an option.

> Toad (Wishing she had a time turner so she could travel ahead and
> read books 6 and 7.)

Echa, seconding the wish