Time-turning (was: Snape and DADA)

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 112642

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "koinonia02" <Koinonia2 at h...> 
wrote:
> "K":
> Why couldn't one go back to before the time they were born? If you 
> can go back 10 years why not 1,000? You are just traveling.
> 
> I don't want to get into Buckbeak a great deal. But, if Buckbeak 
> didn't die and Sirius did escape, why send the kids on a time 
travel 
> trip that could be dangeous? 

GEO: In order to save Buckbeak and Sirius. The only reason they 
didn't die or get soul sucked was because future Harry and Hermione 
saved them so Harry and Hermione had to go back in time. 

> I find it hard to believe that time 
> travel *must* occur for these events to take place. Time travel 
was 
> used to change certain events.

GEO: The events never changed. Time travel was always used to 
facilitite the events shown. Sirius and Buckbeak was always going to 
be rescued by Harry and Hermione and Harry was always going to be 
saved by his older self and the younger selves of Harry and Hermione 
were always to go back in time to allow the events to happen again.

> What would have happened if Harry and Hermione made a mistake and 
> ended up in another time and place? Buckbeak would have died and 
> Sirius would have been taken away. 

GEO: They were never going to mess up because they never messed up 
and were never going to mess up. From their prespective it happened 
once from the perspective of something that follows the time turned 
Harry and Hermione into the past and then leaves and then follows 
the past Harry and Hermione who time turns again it happens an 
infinite times. 
 
> How many times has JKR hit us over the head with *you must not be 
> seen*. Things can go wrong with the time turner.

GEO: They were told because their past selves never saw them. So the 
question arises was it because they tried not to be seen or because 
it was pre-determined.
 
> *If all goes well....

GEO: Dumbledore doesn't know about the fates of the future selves of 
Harry and Hermione until the past ones time turn out of there.