Time-Turning as a Cure-All

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 88774

"Robert Jones" wrote:
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> All in all, if time travel becomes an essential part of the final 
> events in the series, I will feel cheated.  We will have been 
> wasting time reading and thinking about an unsatisfying sci fi novel.


I agree that time travel (like Snape as vampire) is an entirely
unnecessary plot device. (We had enough of the Time Turner in PoA,
thanks). My question is the same one I asked about Snape as Vampire:
Why do the advocates of the theory think it's necessary? ("I like time
travel and think it would be neat to include it" won't do.)

Am I right that the time travel, R=DD advocates are trying to account
for Dumbledore's seeming omniscience (ability to see under
invisibility cloaks, etc.)?

If so, I would argue that we can find the answer simply in the fact
that Dumbledore is the greatest wizard of the age, who can become
invisible without an invisibility cloak (mirror of Erised scene in
SS/PS) and travel instantly from Hogwarts to, say, the MoM without
apparating (which can't be done from Hogwarts), as he does when he
escapes Fudge's intended arrest and again, apparently, when he shows
up with Fawkes in the MoM. Neither ability (invisibility or instant
self-transport without apparating) can be accounted for by time travel
or Dumbledore being Ron.

So, again, to the DD=Ron advocates: Why do you think this theory is
necessary?

And to the opponents of the theory: What alternatives to Dumbledore
being Ron can you present to account for his seeming omniscience?
(I've already presented my own theory--superior wizardry or sorcery.)

And an unrelated question that I'll throw in because it's not worthy
of its own post: The narrator (or one of the Weasleys?) keeps
referring to Perkins, the wizard who works with Arthur in the Muggle
Artifacts office, as an "old warlock." No other character, IIRC, is
referred to by that term. I always thought a warlock was just a male
witch, but JKR seems to use "wizard" in that sense. So what is a
warlock by JKR's definition and how is he different from other wizards?

Thanks for any information or ideas on any of these three questions.

Carol