Dumbledore's watch (was time travel is dangerous)

[rach9112000]

No: HPFGUIDX 89061

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Berit Jakobsen" 
> 
> Berit replies:
> 
> Good research :-) But in all these three passages where DD's watch 
is 
> mentioned, it looks like he's using it the same way ordinary 
watches 
> are used; to consult the sort of time we're used to; the linear 
one :-
> ) He checks his watch to decide how much time he's going to give 
> Fudge; he looks at his watch and it tells him it is five minutes 
to 
> midnight (nothing spooky about that), and in the first instance he 
> checks his watch and announces that Hagrid is late. Nothing 
> extraordinary. From these passages it's hard to deduce that the 
watch 
> is used in time travel; i.e. canon doesn't support it so far. I'm 
not 
> saying it couldn't be more to the watch than meets the eye, but 
> Rowling is not saying or hinting in these passages exactly what 
that 
> might be, since DD so far only has used the watch the "ordinary" 
way.
> 
> (Sorry; I'm one of the sceptics who really don't think time travel 
is 
> going to be used again)
> 
> Berit
> http://home.no.net/berjakob/snape.html


Rachel writes:
   I think the Dumbledore watch theory is a brilliant idea. Even 
though you're right in saying that there's no definitive canon which 
fully supports the theory, there also isn't any which denounces it. 
We have to remember that the books are intended to be mysteries and 
JKR is far too clever to hand us all the clues on a plate. Perhaps 
JKR refers to the time turning watch at times when one would also 
refer to a normal watch purposefully so that on first reading 
nothing would be thought of it but when deeper thought is given to 
it, there must be an alternative use for all 12 of those hands on 
the watch. 
     I for one think there's more to come with time travel in the 
book. Dumbledore is ALWAYS one step ahead of everyone and never 
caught off guard or surprised. 
  In addition, if this theory is accompanied by the theory that 
Dumbledore is an animagus and can transform into a bee, then this 
would explain how he is not seen when he goes back in time. Whenever 
he goes back in time, he can transform into a bee which means that 
he does not run the risk of being seen by anyone who he doesn't want 
to be seen by. 

Rachel.