[HPforGrownups] So long as we're talking about time travel...

GulPlum hp at plum.cream.org
Tue May 13 08:46:59 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 57738

Darrin:

<snip, perhaps oversnip (as long as it's not a parsnip)>

>Now, JKR can create whatever rules she wants for her world, so long
>as she's consistent within that world. She doesn't have to follow any
>other established time travel fiction rules.
>
>BUT... many of the classic Time Travel stories, such as the Time
>Machine and Back to the Future, use the "change time, not place"
>theory.

As Hermione's little jaunts throughout the year indicated, the Time-Turner 
puts the subject close to wherever they were at the time of arrival. Close 
enough to be able to dissemble, not so close as to bump into their earlier 
self, and not so far away that should they be seen by someone, they 
wouldn't ask "how the hell did you get here?" (which, even so, was asked of 
Hermione on one occasion).

Like *so* many things in the Potterverse, you land up in *just* the right 
spot. :-)

(incidentally, Monita should bear this in mind with regard to her little 
"Hagrid Time-Turned to Godric's Hollow" theory she posited yesterday - if 
he'd used a Time Turner, it would have deposited him wherever he had been 
at the time of the attack! Or is Monita saying that Hagrid was the Fifth 
Man?) :-)

I'm not an astrophysicist, but as it happens, considering the earth is 
rotating around itself and the sun, and the solar system around itself 
(etc, etc), in terms of absolute position, I expect you're quite a distance 
away from where you were a few moments ago. So "Same place" in all of those 
classic Time Travel stories is nothing of the sort.

--
GulPlum AKA Richard, who recently got up after less than 3 hours' sleep and 
feels like it -  Time Turner would be handy!





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