Hermione's Time Turner

[Sharon]

No: HPFGUIDX 118788


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, martyb1130 at a... wrote:
> 
> Hello, is anybody else interested in what else this time turner in 
PoA can  
> reveal or help? Why didn't Prof. McGonagall use this when she found 
out that the Potters were murdered? How much of the past does this 
time turner go in? 
> It is very curious that it comes up in book 3 when it could be so 
useful.
> 
> Brodeur


I had the impression that the Time Turner wasn't actually 
McGonagall's own possession.  She had to get permission, after all, 
to allow Hermione to have one for classes, and Hermione had to 
promise to use it *only* for classwork. 

Besides, had McGonagall used it to save the Potters, I don't know how 
successful she would have been.  Besides, there are laws against 
actively changing the way history has been laid out - had McGonagall 
gone back to save them, she might have made the world into more of a 
mess than it currently is.  Was.  Something.

(You know, that whole butterfly theory thing.)

--azriona