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

[Monita]

No: HPFGUIDX 57748

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, GulPlum <hp at p...> wrote:

> 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.
> (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?) :-)

Valky writes:LOl No, sorry no fifth man here. 
What I am speculating is that Dumbledore and Hagrid travelled to 
Godrics Hollow after James and Lily were AK'd and found it empty. 

Dumbledore, with his sage knowledge of time *a'la Buckbeak*, surmised 
that Harrys mysterious absence could be because Hagrid Time turned 
back and took him before they got there. So he handed Hagrid the time 
turner, said make five turns get the boy, make ten turns in the other 
direction then go straight to Privet Drive. I shall meet you there.

There is no definitive canon, to my knowledge, saying that Hagrid 
wouldn't have landed right there in the vicinity of Godrics Hollow 
just after the incedent. 
Has anybody travelled a distance, yet, in the books, from where they 
where at the time of arrival and timeturned? 

Although it is plausible to interpret Hermione's experience the way 
Gul has, the canon does not exclude destination relating closely to 
the point of origin, or that one simply ends up in the *right place*. 

By arriving after Voldies demise Hagrid is safe from attack by him, 
and just in time to get the infant and time turn back out to safety. 


In case you are wondering if I have forgotten the bike, it is no 
consequence really, either he made the ten turns with the bike? 
(don't know if its possible but if it is Harry has had a day of his 
life taken from him there :D more speculation on the moral question 
Harry faces in future books) or he simply rode the bike to Privet 
Drive instead.