[HPforGrownups] Re: Question re-Time Turner

[Annette Hamel]

No: HPFGUIDX 61284

Smoochfrogger wrote:
<<<now while Hermoine is in class B she is also in
class A... if that makes any sense...she is in two different places
at once... >>>

I can understand that Hermione is using the time-turner to be in two places 
at once, I'm just confused on the relationship between "linear" time and 
"turned" time.  During the first hour while Hermione's in class A, class B 
is going on concurrently.  By the time she sends herself back to attend 
class B, class B has already occurred in linear time.  So it seems to me her 
classmates are going through it twice.

And again, when the kids use the time-turner at the end of the book in the 
Buckbeak/Sirius scenes, they are aware that they've already lived through 
those moments and they know what is going to happen next.  They have memory 
of both times.  This is what confuses me.  If one was truly in "both places 
at once" then this memory wouldn't exist, as the event would have only 
happened one time.

In other words ... if Hermione were in both classes at once, it would be 
more like "cloning" herself.  But the time-turner sends her back to a time 
that has already occurred.

I could be over-thinking this.

Annette
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Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

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