Time Turning and Age (was Re: Hermione's Summer)

[Sea Change]

No: HPFGUIDX 95901

Khilari said:
> > This makes about 29 days.
 
and Geoff adds:
> Speaking as an ex-Maths teacher, I would say that your Maths is 
> faultless. 


Sea Change responds:

The maths of you-all is impeccable, but your 'lifes' is seems
incorrect to me.  If each of your days is 2-sets-of-classes'-worth
longer, then you *need* more sleep.  The damage to one's circadian
rhythm for this much of a shift every day is horrendous and takes a
severe physical toll. In terms of simple physical human survival,
Hermione needs to live two, or (much easier) three days for every day.  

Also, once she starts doing this, even before you make the assumption
she is duplicating entire days, she needs more eats. She needs the
time to eat more. And, food only goes through your system so fast.
 
If you are taking 3 times the class load as before, and you don't want
to fare poorly, you may also like to study more.  Non class days are
potentially study days, and certainly would be for her even if she
wasn't Time Turning, so she doesn't 'get those times off'.  Similarly,
vacation days are also study days (possibly taken much later, in 'real
time', close to a test, f'rinstance). 

We know Hermione may not love to bend rules, but she loves her grades
much more than she loves rules, so I doubt she has resisted the
temptation.  Remember, she needs to clearly demonstrate to the powers
that be, that she is worth the investment they have made to bend the
rules for her.

Does the Time Turner have a taxi-meter on it?

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Now, this also explains, why she both went to the ski trip, yet showed
up at Hogwarts one Christmas and didn't explain how or why she was
able to do this all that well to the boys.

It also might explain why her parents might not mind her not spending
so much vacation time with them, or even for this summer, either. 
Because in their minds, she already has spent that vacation time with
them!

It also explains her showing up gorgeous at the Yule Ball.  Since the
story is written from Harry's point of view, and we know Ron is
somewhat clueless too, we might suppose that this is *just* due to
boys being boys.  But we don't have to.

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Finally, Hermione is smart enough and magically powerful enough, that
during the time she was Time Turning, she could have figured out how
to do it herself.  But this is a non-cannon speculation on my part.