Time-turning (was: Snape and DADA)

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 112407

Siriusly Snapey Susan
"Not to mention what kids think of it.  I've explained several times 
to my 8-year-old daughter about how Buckbeak never did die.  But in 
her mind, he DID, and Harry & Hermione simply went back and CHANGED 
THE PAST so that he didn't die the second time.  Now, THAT much of TT 
I understand--that she is wrong about Beaky--but I can't seem to find 
the language to help her grasp it. <<snip>> hoping this was helpful to someone besides 
myself."

DuffyPoo:
I would like to poll kids in the reading age of these books.  I would just bet most of them are thinking like your daughter.  None of this helps me, however.  I think because it doesn't exist in reality (for those of you who think it does, humour me) everyone who writes TT writes it to their own specifications.  In the most recent Time Machine movie, the Time Traveller went back in time to save his fiance.  He could not do that because, without her death, he didn't invent the Time Machine (or didn't invent it that quickly, at any rate).  But there were not two of the Time Traveller existing in the same place at the same time.  When he went back to the park to save his fiance from death, there was only one of him...at least that's how I remember it.

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