Time Turner (WAS Re: POA Prongs Patronus)

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No: HPFGUIDX 100490

Maria <mariaalena at p...> wrote:
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> The thing is, the Time-Turner doesn't send you back in time. It 
> creates a copy of you. The rule is, *there is only one timeline*.
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>
> So, when Harry and Hermione used the Time-Turner in the hospital 
> wing, it created a second version of them (usually referred to as 
> Harry 2 and Hermione 2) three hours before. There are not two 
> timelines. There is only one, with two versions of Harry and 
> Hermione running around. We only go through it twice: once with 
> Harry 1 and Hermione 1, and the second time with Harry 2 and 
> Hermione 2. 
> 
> All events that happened the first time we went through this 
> timeline were influenced by Harry 2 and Hermione 2, because they 
> *were* there all along. Buckbeak never died, James never cast the 
> Patronus (it was Harry 2). In the movie, Hermione 2 was the one to 
> throw the stones and "aroo" from the very beginning. 
> 
> Harry 2 and Hermione 2 never changed the course of events: they 
> created it in the first place.


Maria,

Thank you that was a pretty good explanation, except for one thing...
Now you're telling me that Buckbeak never died?  What about their 
mission to save more than one innocent life?

You have to excuse me, I am a scientist. This is a little too 
abstract for me.  How do you know all of this?

Debbie