Harry at GH

[twobeaglegirl]

No: HPFGUIDX 100463

Susan (teilani):
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> How many times would you have to turn the thing just to 
> hopefully arrive at the same spot?  Plus, if it was that easy 
> to do, why didn't Harry just get a time-turner and flip it 
> around a few > times so that he could at least prevent Sirius' 
> death?  That would have been much easier to do, had Harry done 
> it immediately.  Plus, H/H used it to save him once, why not 
> again?  
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2beagles here:
IMO, the time turner cannot be used to save a life that has already 
been taken.  In PoA, Sirius had not yet been kissed when H & H went 
back in time to rescue him from the Dementors.  I think this topic 
has been covered in previous posts, but it also applies to Buckbeak, 
who was never seen executed by H or H, and therefore the sound of 
his death could be explained away by the swish of an axe on the 
fence by an angry Fudge (I think it was him, I don't have PoA with 
me).
In Oop, by the time Sirius fell through the veil, it was too late.  
Which would also explain why he couldn't go back 15 or so years and 
save his parents.  So the timeturner could only save a life if the 
person using it KNEW it was going to happen.  

--2beagles, who has not had a chance to see PoA yet, and has had to 
skip reading most of the posts this week :-(