*MY* confusion about the Time Turner

[cdayr]

No: HPFGUIDX 124134


> <cleverestwitchofherage at y...> wrote:
> > > > 
> > 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?

<meltowne at y...> wrote:
> 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.
> 

cdayr now:

Howdy! I'm delurking to briefly add to this fascinating 
discussion--

I agree with you about all of these motivations for H/H to hurry 
and turn back in time. 
However, I've also always believed that they have to hurry 
because they have to save Sirius *before* he gets soul-sucked 
in current time. Once a definitive event like a death or a 
soul-sucking happens, it does not seem to be able to be 
changed in HP-brand time-travel. Since time only happens once,  
if you die, you are dead, no matter who has time-turned back and 
is living that time over again. So, if H/H sit around and chit-chat in 
current time for too long, the dementors will arrive, destroy Sirius, 
and he will be lost forever. Therefore, they must time-turn and get 
Sirius out before the dementors get to him, or there will be no 
saving him at all, no matter how many times they time-turn back. 

What do you think? 

-cdayr