Hermione's Time Turner

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 119000


Vivamus wrote:
<huge snip of interesting post on time-turning>

> I'm pretty sure we haven't seen the end of time travel, though.  
Remember the Quidditch World Cup?   Fred and George bet everything
they had on a hundred to one shot, with complete confidence, and no
indication of surprise that they had won.  Somehow, they *knew.* <big
snip>
>
Carol responds:
I've addressed this before, so apologies to anyone who already knows
my views. IMO, it's extremely unlikely that the twins had a time
turner. They seem to be rare items and highly regulated. All it took,
really, to win that bet was brains and the Twins' usual creative
approach to everything. 

They knew that Krum was the best Seeker in the world, therefore he
would catch the Snitch; they also knew that Ireland had the best
*team* in the world, therefore they would win the match. Just because
the Seeker catching the Snitch usually wins the game doesn't mean that
it always does so. The twins figured out that Ireland's Keeper would
prevent Bulgaria from scoring many goals and that Ireland would
probably get in lots of goals before the Snitch was caught. They also
knew that Krum was a merciless player familiar with the Wronski Feint
and other diversionary tactics and that he would do everything he
could to prevent Ireland's Seeker from scoring.

Putting all this together, they reasoned correctly that Ireland would
win but Krum would catch the Snitch. Ludo Bagman, being a lot less
clever and creative than the Twins, put up big money (Leprechaun's
gold, to be sure) against such an unusual outcome, but the Twins were
right.

No time-turning necessary. They just needed, like Snape on various
occasions, to put two and two together.

Carol, who thinks the Twins would have been a lot less angry about
being cheated if they had cheated themselves