To Where To When (TimeTurning that may make sense)

[Josh Warren]

No: HPFGUIDX 109079

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "M.Clifford" <Aisbelmon at h...> 
wrote:
> Valky:
> Pffffffft. The last of the air out of my balloon. Maybe......
> Know any good hiding spots. ;P
> 
> Incedentally since you *are* so observant any help on the signs 
that 
> someone timeturns in the future books?

Now I feel bad. :)

I dunno... it would be helpful if HP wasn't JKR's first set of 
writings... we'd have more of a basis on her ideas. If I may stomp on 
the deflated baloon for a quick second *wince* on seeing Buckbeak 
gone, and if Dumbledore had his own TT availible, why would he have 
needed to send back the kids? He could have done it all (or most, not 
sure if Harry'd mentioned that he thought he saw his Dad by that 
point) himself, one would presume, unless he didn't have his own TT 
(anymore), and only Hermione was licensed to use hers.

I think the comments about how complicated TT can get are the real 
clue. JKR isn't going to bring them back willy-nilly, although the 
time room in the DoM does kick that thought in the shin a bit. I 
agree with others that time travel is usually a cop out, but... I can 
see various reasons for having it in PoA:

1) show Hermione as a work a holic and give her an object lesson in 
the need to smell the roses
2) we hadn't seen the death of a good guy... it was one way to make 
us and our heros think that Buckbeak was dead, yet our heros get to 
save him after all! Now we're ready for real death in GoF.
3) it ended up giving Harry confidence for his Patronus... he really 
is as powerful as everyone thinks he is when he believes in himself!

I don't know... it might come up again at somepoint, but other things 
such as animagi training seem more likely, and have more hints. I was 
contemplating that Hermione might take baby-head as inspiration for 
dialing LV back to mere-mortal days, but the time room was not behind 
the locked door at the DoM, so that's not the power Harry needs. :)

Josh