*MY* confusion about the Time Turner

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 123991


SSSusan
They didn't *change* events. They went back to play their parts in
what *already* happened the one & only time things happened. If
they really had *changed* things, you'd be saying that Buckbeak DID
get executed and they went back and *changed* that. But that's not
the case. The trio believed Beaky was killed, but he never was
killed, because TT!Harry and TT!Hermione were there all along,
removing him from the scene after the Trio got out of the way.

The PERCEPTION of the events changed for the Trio, but the events
themselves remained unchanged.

JKR actually muddies the waters a bit when she "allows" Hermione to
say, "There must be something that happened around now that [DD]
wants us to change." Similarly, Hermione's comment about lots of
witches & wizards having killed their past AND FUTURE selves did a
disservice to people's understanding.

vmonte responds:
I know what you are saying, I'm not sure why Hermione would have 
incorrect info though. You would think that she would be warned of 
all the dangers associated with time travel (rather thoroughly) by 
Minerva. After all, what a deadly weapon (and it is definitely 
something that could be used as a weapon) to give a student in order 
to take more classes?! It sounds more like Dumbledore training 
future Order members to me (we've discussed this before SSSusan). It 
would be careless of the adults to allow Hermione use this device 
without proper training/warnings.

Let's face it --- I hate time travel! Unfortunately, it's definitely 
coming back.

Vivian