[HPforGrownups] Hermione Aging via Time turner

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 53551

 
Mark D wrote -
>From the book, I believe she had almost triple classes which would 
mean she might have aged 26-27 hours for each 24 hour day. I suggest 
she might have occasionally abused the time turner to get extra 
sleep and study at the same time.
 
 
Me -
 
I don't know I'd call it abusing it so much. I mean when Minerva got her
permission to use the Time Turner she must have known that as well as
attending three times as many elective classes as the others she would have
needed to do three times as much work. So presumably she had limited
permission to use it for studying as well as actually being in class. And
while she may have had three times as many elective classes she wouldn't
have had three times as many classes total. As well as their options the
students still have to take Potions, transfiguration, History (I think),
Charms etc. For a normal student i would have thought that option classes
take up o more than 50% of their timetable - so she'd actually have ad only
twice as many classes total if she was taking 3 times as many options.
Someone needs to do the maths on this before we all tie ourselves up
speculating - but it won't be me :)
I think she probably did live 1 or 2 hours every weekday twice, not sure
about weekends.
 
Mark D -
During breaks, I believe Hermione was the only 3rd year Gryffindor 
girl at Hogwarts and might very well have taken advantage of having 
a private bedroom to sleep and study at the same time.
 
Me -
 
Except of course there are at least three female Gryffindor third years -
Hermione, Lavender and, uh, whichever twin is a Gryffindor. 
There's also a fairly convincing piece of maths at the Lexicon showing that
from the evidence of how many students faced the boggart 
in Lupin's class there are probably another two we don't know the names of.
 
Mark D -
The result of overuse of the time turner would  be that Hermione 
might now be older than Harry or Ron. Could she have gained an extra 
6 months during her third year? This would explain why Hermione 
seems so much more mature than Harry or Ron. (It also makes it less 
creepy that Krum at 18 yo is so smitten by Hermione at 15 yo.)
 
Me -
I can't even try and work out how much time she'd have gained without
working 
out her class schedule and how long the terms are and everything but for
hewr to age 6 months 
she'd have to be living at least 12 hours extra a day for 12 months unless
my maths is totally screwed, so that's not possible.
Besides which I subscribe to the Hermione-is-younger-than-everyone-else
theory.
But I don't know why we need to 'explain' why she's more mature than Harry
and ron - 
apart from the fact that kids don't all mature at the same pace, girls are
usually more mature than boys, so 
Hermione acting in a more mature fashion is just natural.

K