Time turner question

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 91718

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ryanweasley" <ryanweasley at y...>
wrote:
> I was just wondering...  how were Hermione and Harry able to use 
> theirs (TimeTurner) toward the end of POA to go back and rescue
>  Sirius? (as well as themselves) 
> 
> There was no way that they could have escaped the Dementors to even 
> have a future to travel back from. And yet they did? ... Someboby
>  help!
> 
> -RyanWeasley


bboy_mn:

This question has been asked and discussed many times. The short
version is that this massive unresolvable time paradox only occurs if
you assume Time happened twice.

If you take the path that time only happens once, and there are
indications that that's what JKR intended, then life gets simpler.

Time Traveling Harry and Hermione were always there, there is no first
time and second time. Harry, Hermione, and Ron go down to the entrance
 hall and hide in a cupboard waiting until the coast is clear, while
they are in the cupboard, the second/TimeTraveling Harry and Hermione
appear in the entrance hall and are heard by Harry/Ron/Hermione.
TimeTravel!Harry&Hermione hide in their own cupboard, then the Trio
leaves and they are heard by the TimeTraveling Harry and Hermione.
After H/R/H leave TT!H/H leave.

Conclusion, if time only happens once, as time seems to do, then
everybody was always there.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn