Time Turner: Was Just a comment about Lupin's malady.

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 108526

> Valky wrote:
" I just want to know how so little can be too much all of a sudden?"

Casey responds:

"My only issue is that Time Travel can be used too easily to right 
something. To do something and go back and erase everything that 
happened. Use the Time Turner to go back and protect Lupin, or James 
and Lilly, or even go back and make sure Baby Riddle is adopted into 
a loving home so that he doesn't turn out evil.

I'm not saying that this is what JK plans, but it's why I get a knee 
jerk reaction to time travel. Guess I've watched too many poorly 
written Star Trek episodes. "


DuffyPoo:

I'm with you on this Casey.  I've heard several people say that DD uses a time-turner regularly.  If he does and did, why didn't he fix this stuff (that I'm afraid is going to be time-turner fixed in the next two books) long ago when no one would have to go back so far?  He only would have to have time turned back so that no one overheard the prophecy.  That would make a big difference.  He could have done it then within the hour .... but then, we wouldn't have the books.

Quite frankly I'm expecting Harry to time-turn back and save himself, like he did in PoA with the Patronus.  Except I can't figure out how he wouldn't be a baby if he time-turned back 16-17 years.....but anything is possible in the wizarding world I suppose.


HunterGreen:

"I just think that another book involving time-travel in a major way would 
just seem like too much; for lack of a better way to put it, its just 
too easy of a narrative device. If time-travel gets involved than 
nothing ever "happens", it can always be undone or re-done or fixed 
somehow, and as a reader I find that annoying (okay, maybe it does 
have to do with a 'bias', sort of). 

DuffyPoo:

I agree with you, too.  And I don't care if it is a personal bias.  Harry and Hermione already fixed the past once, how many more times do we need to see it?  OK, now we know it exists in JKR's world.  Let's move on to the next thing.


My biggest fear is that we're going to see HP wake up in his cupboard under the stairs in Privet Drive, it's the morning that his first Hogwarts letter arrives, and we'll find out it's all been a dream.  It's that whole dream year of Dallas coming back to haunt me. ;-)



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