how time turner works

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 72610

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kellymcj2000" <kelly at p...> 
wrote:
> 
> 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?  

If I understand what you are saying then yes he could do that.

>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?  

No because the other Harry along with Hermione would have time turned 
themselves back to the past to save themselves with the corporeal 
Patronus and then gone forward after their past versions have gone 
backwards in time to repeat the loop again.