[HPforGrownups] Time turner question

[Kathy King]

No: HPFGUIDX 91737

ryanweasley:
>I was just wondering... I understand how a time turner is supposed to
>work but, how were Hermione and Harry able to use theirs 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? I'm sorry if
>this has been explained or if no one understands what I'm even asking
>but it is really bugging me. Someboby help!

Kathy's thought:
If I understand you correctly, you are thinking along the same lines as I 
am. What came first the chicken or the egg? Harry saw himself in the past so 
what he is seeing must have already happened at some point in time to be 
relevant to the future. You cant see what hasnt happened, can you? Harry 
even says to Hermione that it was ok that he saw himself because he thought 
it was his dad.

Its kind of like in the Oop when they are in the DoM.  They see that big 
oversized time turner (the hourglass shaped thing with the chicken that 
turns back into an egg every few minutes).  The time turner Hermione wore 
was also shaped like an hourglass.  The big time turner in the DoM shows how 
the time turners (like Hermiones) work.  Time is not just past, present, 
and future but is in a continual loop, quite like a phoenix. There is no 
beginning, middle, or end, which is why death is just another great 
adventure because there is no end. Its kind of like Back to the Future, 
when Marty goes into the future to save his past.


Kathy

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