[HPforGrownups] Question re-Time Turner
Taryn Kimel
amani at charter.net
Fri Jun 20 16:15:05 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 61290
Annette:
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.
Me:
The important thing to remember is that there is only ONE timeline, and everything occurs on that one timeline. Hermione does not go back to Class B and change the past so she's there. She has always been there. She's in both classes at the same time. Think of Harry summoning the Patronus to save himself across the lake. It happened even before /we/ see Harry go back in time. It's one giant circle and only /one/ timeline. You don't /change/ the past. You fufill it. Harry knew that he could summon the Patronus, because he had SEEN himself do it. He is both places at once, and him going back in time and saving himself doesn't /change/ the linear timeline, because it already happened. He's fufilling it. In the same effect, Hermione is both places at once and is not changing anything.
Hopefully someone else can explain it better than I can. ^_^;
--Taryn
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