Hermione's Time Turner

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No: HPFGUIDX 118791


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sharon" <azriona at j...> wrote:

> 
> 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

Sue:

Quite right. Hermione tells Harry quite emphatically that they
absolutely must NOT mess around with the past and DD warns them not to 
be seen by their earlier selves. All they can actually do,safely, is *make* 
history.Time travel is always a messy concept anyway. The Potters are dead, 
as are a whole lot of other people. If it was as simple as using a time turner, 
why not just go back and wipe out Tom Riddle? Where would it end?