*MY* confusion about the Time Turner

[cdayr]

No: HPFGUIDX 124156



> 
> cdayr wrote:
 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

cdayr responds:

Oh yeah! That is entirely plausible (my mind is still getting 
around all the implications). Thanks for offering me a new and 
intriguing way to look at this situation. :-)

Oddly enough, your timeline of a 5-hour time turn might have 
actually been a better choice, security-wise. There would be no 
chance of H/H being caught out of the hospital wing at the time of 
Sirius's escape, less chance of Mme Pomfrey seeing something 
odd, etc. especially if they had been released back to their dorms 
by that point. As an additional advantage to going later, H/H 
would then know ahead of time that they would be successful 
because they would know that Sirius had escaped, and Harry is 
very clear that it was an advantage to know he had already been 
successful with the Patronus. I'm trying to think of disadvantages 
besides the general increased risk of being seen because there 
are two of them around for longer, and right now I can't. Anyone 
else see any?
I'm intrigued. Now the question of why DD was in such a hurry to 
get them going has me more curious.

-cdayr, who doesn' think this has any major implications for 
anything, but loves thinking about it anyway...