how time turner works

[kellymcj2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 72602

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "greatelderone" 
<greatelderone at y...> wrote:
> --- 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.

KelMc again
So you think it's possible then to go back to your own present and 
not have to live through the actual time again?  What if, for 
instance, after saving himself with the patronus he said " Well, 
that's it for me.  Too bad about Buckbeak and Sirius, but I've got to 
get back to that chocolate," and tried to go forward to himself in 
the hospital ward?  Could he just appear there?  Would there be two 
of him or not because the present Harry is just going back/forward to 
the time after he gets locked in?  Now I've time turned myself into 
quite a confusing mess.  It may well be hopeless.

KelMc