twins/time-turner, Trelawny, and JKR

[Juliet]

No: HPFGUIDX 53489

Christine:
>>This isn't a question, but it does have to do with
recent posts. I believe (correct me if I'm wrong)
that JKR said that wizard children do not go to school
before Hogwarts. This might be a British thing. 
Maybe they do in other countries.

If this is so, how do they learn to read and do simple
math and things like that? Parents? What if
someone's parents are like the Dursleys and don't
teach them anything? Do they take remedial courses?>>

I'm positive this has been discussed before.  Next time you want to 
check for answers, try searching the archive.  I don't really have 
any answers for you on it, except that maybe they hire tutors or 
maybe it's somehow recquired of parents to teach their children.  
*shrugs* "The World may never know." *eats a Tootsie Pop*

>>Does anyone else thing Gred and Forge had their sneaky
little hands on a time-turner in GoF when they
correctly predicted a completely unlikely outcome to
the match AND bet their life savings on it?>>

Well, how could they have gone through the QWC, not betting, finding 
out who won, and then go back through, after they knew who won, and 
somehow get themselves to bet? No no no.  You can't change the past. 
If you already know something has happened, you can't go back and 
change it.  It's confusing, I know.  But take Hermione's use of it 
for example.  When she missed the Charms class on Cheering Charms, it 
was because she had gone back in time to go and work on Arithmancy in 
the commons(I'm not looking directly at my book, but I'm being pretty 
accurate, I think), and she feel asleep.  When Harry and Ron woke 
her, they told her she's missed her class.  Thus, she could not go 
back and make-up her Charms class, as she had already been absent 
from it.  Hope I'm making sense, here...

>>Why does Dumbledore keep Trelawny around? She is
pretty much a fraud except for the one accurate
prediction she makes (which she doesn't even
remember.)>>

Actually, she makes two.  When Harry describes what Trewlaney did 
that night, Dumbledore says something along the lines of how that 
might have very well been her second only real precition.  Why does 
he keep her? uh...comic relief? :)  Or maybe getting a new Divination 
Professor would be as hard as finding a DADA one, and he just doesn't 
want to go to the trouble.  Or, perhaps, he doens't mind waiting 
around for however long it takes for her to make a *real* prediction, 
even though she doesn't remember it nor does anyone bother to tell 
him the second time it happens.

~Aldrea, wishing Christine a "Welcome to HP4GU, hope you enjoy it 
here!"