Could Time-Turner be used to save Black?

[Amanda]

No: HPFGUIDX 82230

Nianya:

> Have to disagree on the time turner issue. If it can only apply to 
> events that haven't happened yet, how can Hermione turn back time 
to 
> attend a class/exam that is already over? Throughout PoA she was 
> doing just that going back to attend classes which were already 
> finished.

As I interpret the time-turner: time's flow involved, for a period, 
Hermione being in two classes at once. In her own personal experience 
of the time, she did one class and then the other, sequentially. From 
an outside perspective, it happened simultaneously--she attended two 
classes at once.

What Hermione did NOT do is change the past. She did NOT go "back" 
and attend the Charms class she missed. It had already happened, and 
she missed it. If she had stayed awake and used the turner, she would 
have been in the class when it happened. She didn't, and she wasn't, 
and she cannot now go back and re-experience an event that has passed.

I refuse to believe that Hermione, of all people, would have simply 
let it go if there was a way to "re-take" the class. But she didn't--
she went and apologized to Professor Binns. This alone is enough for 
me to conclude that the turners can't be used to change an event once 
it has occurred.

Because what is experienced in the passage of time, *includes* 
whatever interference future people have done. They did it in the 
past, by definition. It's already happened.

~Amanda