*MY* confusion about the Time Turner

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 124141


cdayr wrote:
"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."

Del replies:
I thought so too, at first. But after reflection, I realise that it
doesn't have to be that way.

As long as Harry and Hermione end up Time-Turning, then their doubles
*are* roaming around anyway. So even if they had Time-Turned a couple
of hours later, they still could have saved Sirius.

Let's say that they don't TT in the hospital wing, and after all the
commotion about Sirius having disappeared, they head off to Gryffindor
Tower, about a couple of hours later. But DD stops them on the way,
and sends them back 5 hours. So they do everything they did in PoA,
except that after saving Sirius, they hide and wait for two hours, and
then discreetly head off to Gryffindor Tower. See, it still works!

So I guess the reason for DD being in such a hurry is indeed security. 

Del