Time-Turner Questions?!

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No: HPFGUIDX 111082

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Brenda M." 
<Agent_Maxine_is at h...> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I thought I made my peace with Time-Turning plot device, but more 
> questions are splurging out, now that it's been repressed.
> 
> It gets SO confusing, for many reasons:
> 
> 1. If there are times or events pre-destined to be revisited or 
> corrected, it defies the whole purpose of free-will and "I'm in 
> charge of my life" motto. It strongly reminds me of that vase 
> incident from Matrix, when Neo visits the Oracle.
> 
> 2. Another thing is that I have even greater problem is -- so time-
> turner acts as a DNA replication device? Wizard cloning machinery? 
To 
> be able to produce multiple copies of same human being, with every 
> bit of intelligence and cognition intact? How is that possible?? 
> *sudden image of Homer's hammock comes to mind*
> 
> 3. I'm now wondering if Time-Turners can be used in court. 
Wouldn't 
> it prove to be a much more effective and truthful testimony if it 
can 
> be verified by going back in time and the whole event presented in 
> front of more witness? Wizards have better means to verify the 
truth -
> - either by Legilimens or Pensieve or Time-turners. I wonder why 
we 
> don't hear of these devices during wizarding trials.
> 
> 
> Help! Smarter brains needed, help!!
> 
> 
> With HPness,
> Brenda

Sue:

Interesting thoughts. Time travel is always a paradoxical thing in 
any speculative fiction novel. The best we can suggest is that what 
happens when someone time travels happens because it always did - 
e.g. McNair, who seems to be chopping off Buckbreak's head is, in 
fact, throwing a fit of pique, which Harry and Hermione can see from 
another viewpoint.

As for the methods of proving things during trials, perhaps the 
first two aren't used due to privacy issues - anyway, what happens 
if you're powerful enough, say, in Occlumency, to resist or even 
fake your memory? Because it seems to me that this is what Snape has 
probably been doing to LV all these years. It wouldn't really prove 
anything any more than a lie detector in our system. And the time-
turner might be too dangerous to mess around with.