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

[jksunflower2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 70141

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Echa Schneider 
<echa_schneider at m...> wrote:
> 
> 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



JKR has stated that books 5 thru 7 would deal with having to decide 
between doing what is right and what is easy.  Is there a lesson to 
be learned here?  We're in a pretty gray area with the time 
turners.  Sure did seem right in PoA.  Easy?  Guess that's open to 
interpretation.  

Could someone in James and Lily's time have used a time turner and 
the ramifications are being felt in current time?

I can't see JKR using time travel as a resolution to the series 
either.  But, she's a crafty one.  She could find a way to weave it 
into the story without it seeming too much of a cop-out.

We shall see...in time.

Toad