Timeturners

[sevenhundredandthirteen]

No: HPFGUIDX 72984

ereturtle18 wrote:

 Perhaps the direction you take when you time travel 
> is determined by which way you turn the timeturner, e.g. if 
Hermione 
> had turned hers, say, away from her instead of towards her, then 
she 
> would have ended up three hours in the future instead of three 
hours 
> in the past. 

Me:

I'm actually inclined to agree with you on this one- mostly because 
of the way the sparkling wind in the bell jar seems to work in the 
Department of Mysteries. I wrote a really long post about this a 
short while ago (#69679) in which I basically argued that the 
sparkling stuff inside a time-turner is actually the same sparkling 
stuff we see in the bell jar at the MoM. I also thought that it could 
be argued that the way you 'age' in the bell jar really had to do 
with which direction you were travelling in. That is, when the bird 
floats up it ages forward, when it floats down, it grows backwards. 
(If you want to see all the evidence for this theory it's all in the 
post- #69679) So, I think that this 'directional time flow' could 
also work for time-turners like you said- turn it one way, it takes 
you forward, turn it the other, and you go in the opposite direction.

The only problem I have with this is that it would mean that there 
had to be a definite top and bottom or front and back to the 
hourglass, and Hermione just keeps it dangling on a chain. To me that 
seems a bit dangerous as you'd keep forgetting which way was which. 
Then again- your theory of turning it toward yourself and away from 
yourself seems better suited to this theory. It wouldn't matter which 
was the 'front' or 'back' so long as it was sensitive to where you 
were in relation to it.

The fact that Hermione keeps her time-turner dangling on a chain also 
makes me wonder about other things too- like, wouldn't whatever is 
inside the time-turner just naturally flow from one end to another as 
she walked around??? So, I think that you have to actually empty one 
end into another all at once to go back in time. This would also mean 
that Hermione couldn't go back in time, say, half and hour just by 
only tipping over half of the contents of her time-turner.

ereturtle18 wrote:

Or maybe her timeturner only goes back in time, and 
> there are others that only go forward. Maybe there are also long-
> distance timeturners that go back one day per turn, or a week, 
> month, year, or whatever so people wouldn't have to turn their 
> fingers into mush going back more than a couple of days.

Me:

Yes I agree again- because we see many different shaped and sized 
time-turners in the Department of Mysteries. Before this point people 
could really only specualte as we'd only seen time-travel once, but 
seeing as there was a whole cabinet full of them and they all looked 
different, I'd say that it's fair to assume that they all have 
slightly different functions- whether in increments on time (one 
hour, one day, 100 years) or perhaps in the direction in which they 
take you.

~<(Laurasia)>~