Time turner problems (Was: PoA Plot does not work)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 91220

Paula: 
Can you help me with another timeturner problem I have?  In the MoM 
scene in OotP, a whole rack of timeturners breaks and then repairs 
itself.  Doesn't this create a "paradox" under your approach?
 
Also, doesn't that scene suggest that timeturners have a "life" of 
their own?  There's not a person there to knock the shelf over again 
and again, so the timeturners themselves must be doing this.  Can 
they have an element of knowlege or something?
 
Carol:
Which leads me to wonder what exactly happened to the baby-headed
Death Eater in the same scene. Has anyone figured out who he is?
Obviously not Bellatrix, but I've also eliminated Nott (knocked out
earlier), Malfoy, Dolohov, Rookwood, Avery, and MacNair (all of whom
Harry recognizes or would recognize), and Jugson who was paired with
Dolohov and must be the one hit with the Petrificus Totalus spell at
about that same time. I don't think it's Crabbe, whom he might have
recognized by his build, and it probably isn't one of the Lestrange
brothers, who were probably the two following Bellatrix. I think that
leaves just Mulciber. Has anyone else tried to figure this out? At any
rate, I think we have one Death Eater as a permanent resident of St.
Mungo's. I hope he doesn't end up in the same ward with Agnes and the
Longbottoms!

Carol