So long as we're talking about time travel...

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 57747

Finwitch wrote: 
> 
> Earth is not as still as some of us might want to believe. It 
> rotates - so that the place where you're now was a bit east just a 
> while ago, a bit more 3 hours ago. Further, if you moved back in 
time 
> for 6 months, but not place, you'd end up in empty space just 
> opposite side of Earth's track around the Sun... and the Sun's not 
> still, either, it's orbiting around the centre of the Milky Way 
> Galaxy, and the Galaxy orbits arond the centre of Galaxy group 
etc... 
> No, for time travel to be of any use, you *must* change place, too!
> 

Remember, the Time Machine and Back to the Future put you EXACTLY in 
the spot, one can presume it moved you enough to compensate for the 
Earth's rotation.

(And I don't know that the Earth would rotate just enough for Harry 
and Hermione to be right near the Entrance Hall closet, either. Why 
wouldn't it just splinch them into a wall?)

 Then, we should also consider the matter of the moving Hogwarts. 
> Stairs move(Harry & Ron were on them once they did that). 
Proffessor Binns, the slave of habit, comes out from the blackboard. 
I think he does that because the door was THERE when he was alive, 
and he's so much into the habit that he won't stop just because the 
door happened 
> to move!

Again, Hogwarts would move them just enough? Nah, I like the "Close 
Enough" theory put forward by GulPlum better.

Awfully darn convenient it put them right next to the Entrance Hall 
though, dontcha think?

Darrin
-- Close Enough would be a really good bad name. Sorry I've been lax.