Time-turning as literary device

[mhbobbin]

No: HPFGUIDX 108627

Re: Time-turning as literary device

 
Valky wrote originally:
> > > Please, I have absolutely no idea where anyone gets the notion
> > > that time travel has been overextended in the story.

SSSusan responded:
> > I would be VERY happy indeed if there is no more use of time-
> > turning or polyjuice. And it's not the quantity of chapters in
> > which they've been used. It's because of what HunterGreen
> > said: they were used as a narrative device, and once is enough
> > for some of us.
> >
 
mhbobbin writes:
I suspect that if time turning appears again it will be in a 
different way than we have seen it. The mysterious Gred & Forge bet 
in GOF is possibly an instance when it has happened. I think that 
the time turning narrative device will reappear but presented as 
something that has already happened.I think we must be alert to 
events being out of kilter at some point (that will be hard since 
events are often out of kilter)and then learning that someone other 
than Harry and his cohorts had timeturned a major event. I could 
possibly stand that. But in general, I agree that I don't want to 
see much more of it. It makes my head spin and is a bit of a cop-
out. Perhaps someone will die in a time turner episode. It is, after 
all, dark magic.
mhbobbin