[HPforGrownups] Harry's Watch

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No: HPFGUIDX 59721

In a message dated 6/9/2003 6:13:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, Red Inkstone 
writes:

> Why is such a deal made about Harry's stopped watch in GF? 

I'm so glad you brought this up. It bothered the heck out of me when I read 
GoF, and I just forgot all about it. I kept expecting JKR to come back to the 
watch issue at some point, but she never did. 

This makes me think she'll come back to it in another book. We hear very 
often that Dumbledore is looking old, but that isn't resolved in GoF. Perhaps the 
watch issue will be revisited. 

JKR mentions watches frequently, as I recall, but I don't have the canon to 
support that right now.  :)

The first thing I can remember about time is Hermione's time-switching for 
her class schedule. I wonder if JKR is hinting at something similar in 
mentioning Harry's broken watch over and over again.

Also, if magic can repair glasses and such, why didn't Harry just repair his 
watch, or ask Hermione to do it? 

And why was it such a focal point in the first place?

I think perhaps the watch will come up again. I got the sneaking feeling that 
nothing was *wrong* with his watch, as he thought there was, but that 
something magical had been *done* to it. 

I'm stumped. I've looked around the Internet and on some of the various 
transcripts, but I haven't found anything to point me in a clear direction yet that 
feels right. I could be missing something, but I suspect the watch must come 
up again in another book, the way Dumbledore's age must come up again later 
on.

Brief Chronicles


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