Ponderings on relations & timeturners

[Rach]

No: HPFGUIDX 70714

Joy wrote:
>>> 2.  Time-turner.  I wonder sometimes, if at the end of the 
series, JKR might have the timeturner used to go back and change the 
whole beginning of the series.  Are there limits on the timeturner?  
It would seem it could be used to go back and correct a lot of 
problems, stopping the rise of LV, etc.  Perhaps that's how D'Dore 
knows how things will turn out and lets Harry get into dangerous 
situations, knowing he can use the TT to go back and help in the case 
that Harry & Co. fails. >>>

I dont think the Time Turner can be used to actualy change time. The 
Time Turner scene in PoA was carefully constucted so that every 
action that Harry and Hermione influenced as their second selves had 
actually already happened to their first selves (i.e. Hagrid's shout 
when he realised buckbeak was gone, Harry saving Hermione and himself 
from the Dementors). 

Its a cool idea that the time turner can be used to fix mistakes, but 
I have a feeling it would not possible - you would probably do more 
damage than good - which is why McGonnagal had to get permission from 
the Ministry for Hermione to have it in the first place (In fact she 
probably got permission from someone who works in the time room of 
the department of mysteries). 

Its interesting that JKR limits the wizarding world with the same 
limitations that we live under in the real world. It makes the story 
so much more plausible. Things are no easier to fix in the wizard 
world than it is in the real world. This first seemed to strike home 
for me when we met the Weasleys. They can't just wave a wand and 
conjure new clothes, a nice house or a vault full of galleons. 

Rach