Why the time turner stinks

[scooting2win]

No: HPFGUIDX 79783

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Deirdre F Woodward" 
<dwoodward at t...> wrote:
> Here's why the time turner stinks.
> 
> Presuming there isn't only one time turner (and if there is, why 
does
> McGonnegel have it?) then why doesn't Lord Voldemort have one?
> 
> Or better yet, why hasn't Dumbledore or someone else gone back and 
killed
> pre-powerful Voldemort?
> 
> I know the whole "time turner is powerful magic and you mustn't 
misuse it"
> but that's hooey -- McGonnegel gave it to Hermione to affect 
future events
> (Hermione's education), and Dumbledore allowed Harry to use it to 
change
> just happened events (Harry's death by kissing -- now there's a 
death!). So
> if it's ok to let Harry save himself from the dementor, surely it 
would be
> ok to turn back time when Voldy starts making his
> killing-you-all-I-am-evil-leader moves?
> 
> The more I think about the time-turner, the more the time turner 
stinks.
> 
> Deirdre
> Eight of Eight

No, that's not right, there are lots of time turners, but, you can't 
change things that have happened, meaning, when Harry and Hermoine 
saved Buckbeak, and Hagrid howled, Harry, Hermoine, and Ron were 
also standing in the front of Hagrid's, they heard the axe hit 
something, and then Hagrid's Howl, but they did not actually see 
Buckbeak escape or killed so they only thought that Buckbeak was 
killed. Harry and Hermoine were told by Dumbledore that they could 
save two lives. Sirius' and Buckbeak's because Dumbledore already 
knew that they had indeed saved Buckbeak's life. So I think if 
something has already happened you can not change "a future" event 
to take place another way because other people saw or witnessed that 
event happening the first time, and I am pretty sure that's all that 
counts. Harry saving himself and Hermoine, that was completely 
different, Dumbledore, 1st did not know about that, and 2nd Harry 
thought it was his father who saved them, not himself, he figured 
out that he could do it because he had seen himself do it, that was 
almost like something that seems almost weird. like Harry was going 
in a circle, Harry knows he can do it and he does.  The time turner 
is very dangerous, i don't think it should be used to change past 
events or future events and Hermoine did not use it to change her 
future, she would have taken those classes anyway, she just added 
some to her schedule with the use of the time-turner. Lori