*MY* confusion about the Time Turner

[meltowne]

No: HPFGUIDX 124124


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cleverestwitchofherage" 
<cleverestwitchofherage at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm jumping in here--not sure exactly what I'm responding to--but 
> want to add my 2 knuts to the discussion of time travel.
> 
> What interests me is the fact that DD wants Harry and Hermione to 
> HURRY to time travel back. If events can _really_ be changed, if 
the 
> past can truly be altered, then couldn't they could go back at any 
> time and change them?

The longer they wait to go back, the longer they have to go back - an 
perhaps they longer they have to wait to return to their normal 
time.  DD is fairly confident about their ability to stay hidden for 
those 3 hours, but he may not be sure they can successfuly hide much 
longer than that.  They would also need an opportunity to slip away 
without being noticed and return - agian without being noticed.  If 
they wait, they will also have to take Ron, and adding a third person 
to their TT group might make it even more problematic.  Also, the 
longer they wait, the less they might remember of events that just 
happened, placing them more at risk of discovery.

I think DD has plenty of personal experience with a timeturner - I 
suspect he used to to go back and send Hagrid to get Baby Harry.  He 
had to have Hagrid lie low for almost 24 hours because Hagrid showing 
up with the baby before that would cause a paradox - he might bring 
the baby to the "wrong" Dumbledore.   I do need to go back to see 
when Hagrid told McGonagle where DD would be and when.  Did he tell 
her before he went back to Godric's Hollow?  If so, why did she need 
to see Dumbledore.