Is time changing or are people changing in time?

[Susana da Cunha]

No: HPFGUIDX 111672

Snow previously:
> And now the watch! Could Dumbledore be checking his watch to see
> where else he is at another time in space?

> Potioncat:
That's one of the best ideas about the watch I've ever read!

Snow:

"Thanks! It's just that one statement by Dumbledore that haunts me,
where he says to Fudge as he looks at his watch "I'll give you one
hour of my time tonight". I realize it could simply be a way of
talking but I don't think so it sounds like something more than that."

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I have to eco Potioncat here: That's one of the best ideas about the watch
I've ever read! And I've search through 20,000 posts looking for ideas about
the watch (Yes. Clicking "next" over and over and over and over again!).

The watch has been my pet wonder for quite some time. I can figure out the
planets. If there are 12 (I don't think the number is mentioned in canon)
they can tell time (sideral time that is - as in an astrological chart). And
that made me wonder: why would anyone need the "complete" sideral time? That
is minute, hour, day, month, year, age and era. You only need a watch that
can tell years if you're traveling in time - a lot! And if you are, sideral
time is more reliable (no extra days every four years).

And what about the hands? 12 of them. Another astrological chart? For his
other "self" somewhere in time?

Good. But he tells normal time (not sideral) with his watch. That means he
needs at least two hands for that. My guess so far goes as fallows:

2 hands to tell normal time;

1 hand pointing year, which would be the degree in the age house (2,200
years) - not easy to tell just by looking at the planets, so I've read;

1 hand for the moon fase (good for potions and stuff);

1 hand that fallows the sun except when the watch travels back in time -
when that happens the planets freeze and the hand goes back the amount of
time traveled (sideral time). The hand then marks the time remaining to
"catch up" with the point where you left (time of the day);

1 hand that follows the sun but jumps forward when you go forward in time -
that way, if you go forward and then back again you don't loose track of
your other "selves";

4 hands point month and year for the two previous situations;

2 extra hands - no idea. (Anyone?)



The problem I have with this so far is:

One: I have no idea what I'm talking about! I'm not an astronomy fan and
even less of an astrology fan. I'm probably proving real ignorance by
posting this.

Two: you can't have more than three "selves" running around in time.

Three: way too complicated!



Anxious to read your thoughts,
Susana