*MY* confusion about the Time Turner

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 124174



> <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. 
>
> cdyar: 
> 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. 

Valky now:

There is a simple and logical reason for it. The children had to 
hurry so that they could run back to hospital wing afterward, while 
the rest of Hogwarts was distracted by Sirius and be locked in so 
they couldn't be accused of having something to do with it.

Just working backwards for those who get a headache from 
timeturning. Lets say they *did* timeturn outside of the two minute 
time frame between DD walking out of the Hospital wing, and locking 
the door. When they returned to the Hospital wing there would be TWO 
H/H's in the same place.  Cardinal TT rule has been broken, 
consequences unknown but rumoured to be pretty nasty.

Ok lets remedy that by saying that they hid in the Forbidden Forest 
and waited until the time of their original Timeturning to return. 
With a WEREWOLF running loose. Very Very Bad IDEA. 
Besides this, after Sirius is found to have flown the coop and Snape 
comes barging into the hospital wing, if they weren't there because 
they timeturned a few minutes later, they have been caught. And even 
if they were still there, Snape KNEW they had something to do with 
Sirius escape, thats probably Legilimency at work and it might have 
told him that they *hadn't* actually done it yet. So, again, Really 
BAD Idea.
Immediately after they were locked in Madam Pomfrey entered the room 
to tend to "her patients". They weren't going anywhere in the time 
in between. 

Dumbledore was right to tell them to hurry, a teensy tiny window of 
opportunity was opened and it was not long before it shut tight 
again, ability to go backwards in time was never going override that 
fact.