To Where To When (TimeTurning that may make sense)

M.Clifford Aisbelmon at hotmail.com
Tue Aug 3 21:43:04 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 108723

What I see to have been resolved with some certainty by our Time 
Turning threads here lately is that if any Timeturning is going to 
occur in the books to come, by HRH or Otherwise, they will only 
accomplish things that have *already happened* in the current 
timeline.

There are some such things in the books to date. Occurrences outside 
the scope of the Harry POV in detail and therefore unexplained. For 
thse of us who *do* have some interest in TimeTurning being further 
used in the story, rather than those who don't, I would like to 
begin compiling a list of events that bear on the story but are 
peripheral and without the forthcoming of a suspect responsible for 
them. Read on you'll see what I mean.


1 Who broke into Gringotts in PS/SS and attempted to take the Stone. 
We are given to assume, that QuirrelMort was the culprit. However, 
what if he was aware the stone was being transported to Hogwarts, 
already?
It might have taken him sometime to aquire the troll. 
And even if it was QuirrelMort after the stone in London, Who foiled 
them? Who might have known that they would be there? Certainly noone 
suspected them in these early chapters of the books.
A peripheral event that *did* happen and as yet *no actual culprits*.
Therefore if I were an experienced TimeMastering Wizard I might be 
inclined to suspect that something has happened in *time*. Such as 
if I were DD and didn't already know what had happened, which he 
might.
Does everyone get what I mean here? The imperative is the 
identification, then you can say hmmm there *might* be 'time' there.

2. How did it 'become clear' to Dumbledore to return to Hogwarts 
when he was in London at the end of PS/SS. It might have been an 
intuition or realisation of present facts, and ordinarily we could 
just dismiss it as one such. However since I have already placed 
time events in London in PS/SS I am beginning to suspect London in 
PS/SS is somewhere that the story may go.
The short theory is that DD goes to London *because* something fishy 
*is* going down there, but when he arrives and realises that what's 
going on there is all future, he rushes back recognising that his 
place is in the present. 


So there you have it, a start. Maybe it's all wrong, at the very 
least it is continuous with the precedent in POA. Time Turning has 
already happened, there are no 'Cheesy Outs' just more story.

Best to You All
from Valky






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