how time turner works

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 72596

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn Cawte" <kcawte at b...> 
wrote:
> I would imagine people assume that it can't be used to take you 
forward
> generally because a commonly held theory about time travel is that 
you can
> go back to the past because it exists but you cannot travel to the 
future
> because it hasn't happened yet.

However that is not true for the kind of Heinlein-ian/non-casuality 
time travel used in Harry Potter. Here both the future, present and 
past exist simultaneously which would allow for the kind of time 
travel we saw in PoA since future Harry had to exist for past Harry 
to live.