Question re-Time Turner

[Annette Hamel]

No: HPFGUIDX 61248

I was thinking about Hermione's time-turner and I'm puzzling over something 
...

Suppose the first class period of the day was 9:00-10:00, and suppose 
Hermione is enrolled in two classes during that period, class A and class B. 
  At 9:00, she goes to class A.  At 10:00, when class A concludes, she uses 
the time-turner to send herself back to 9:00, and attends class B.

My question is this - by the time she sends herself back to 9:00 to attend 
class B, class B has already taken place in "linear" time.  The students in 
class B have already had the class, and Hermione was not among them - she 
was not in the classroom with them.  And when she sends herself back, she 
*is*.  This seems like a logistical "hole" to me.  When she sends herself 
back, she will be walking into the classroom and sitting down with the class 
B kids, but in *linear* time, those class B kids already walked into the 
classroom, sat down, and had the class without Hermione.

Am I missing something here?  When she turns back time, is she turning it 
back for *everyone*, not just herself?  If so, wouldn't the others be living 
the experience for the second time, and would only the second experience 
remain in their memories?  Remember when the kids used the time-turner at 
the end of the book to rescue Sirius, they retained their memories of what 
happened before, during that time period.

Ugh, I've got myself tied up in knots now ...

Annette
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