book 7: back to the future theory

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 53102

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, SnapesSlytherin at a... wrote:
> Well...why does it have to be a Time Turner?  Everyone keeps 
> bringing up the canon point that the Time Turner is dangerous, 
> etc., etc.. It  doesn't say that there is no other way to travel 
> through time, correct?  It could be a  trifle unethical (requiring 
> some questionable supplies) or extremely advanced, or ancient magic. 
> There *could* be  another way.
> 
> ~*~*~Oryomai~*~*~


bboy_mn:

Oh, you are absolutely right, there are certainly many ways to time
travel. I suspect the Time Turner is a very minor way to time travel.
It is meant to move you backward as we have seen, and possibly
forward, which we haven't seen, in time in increments of one hour. How
many times do you have to turn it over to backup in time 50 years in
increments/turns of an hour each. So without a doubt, you do not make
great leaps in time using a time turner. Logically, if time travel is
possible, then you use some other method of large jumps in time.

BUT the method does not change the ethics. It doesn't matter what
device you use to kill someone, it is still unethical, and it doesn't
matter what device you use to time travel, substantially altering time
can have cataclysmic consequences; universal cataclysmic consequneces.

Ethics aren't related to method.

bboy_mn