*MY* confusion about the Time Turner

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 124183


> Del replies:
> Let's say they Time-Turned a couple of hours later. DD locks them 
in the hospital wing, Sirius escapes, Snape and Fudge come rushing 
in, and the kids are found locked and innocent. Then they are sent 
to their dormitory, and they Time-Turn there. Nobody's the wiser, 
nobody can accuse them of anything.

> and Valky earlier wrote:
> "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."
> 
> Del replies:
> Huh? What would Legilimency reveal if they didn't know yet that 
they would later Time-Turn?
>

Valky Now:
In your above suggestion you have failed to mention *when* 
Dumbledore suggests that they timeturn. If he does so during the 
conversation in the Hospital wing, then what H/H are about to do 
would indeed be on their mind when Snape bursts in, hence 
legilimency by Snape *could* work against their success. 
If he later finds a moment, to let them know, which would be *very* 
difficult once Sirius had been found missing from detention in *his* 
school, but lets say he does, then the legilimency is bypassed, and 
they timeturn later by a few hours. 
The consequences of this:
1. the children need to timeturn up to six hours back, which is a 
very long time.
2. they cannot return to the Hospital wing after three hrs in the 
past because of the two H/H problem.
3. they cannot hide safely in the forbidden forest with any 
guarantee of safety because of the werewolf and the dementors 
patrolling for their missing prisoner, again.
4. there is an extra H/H hiding somewhere on Hogwarts grounds for 
some three extra hours with a very angry and supicious SS storming 
around.
5. If they do manage to bypass all these dangers and get back to 
their dormitories on time, who here would forgive DD for *not* 
telling them to hurry. ;D


> Valky wrote:
> "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."
> 
> Del replies:
> There's no window of opportunity in Time-Turning. Either you Time-
Turn or you don't. 

Valky:
Yes but their was a window of opportunity in which they could safely 
be missing in the original timeline, and it was the two minutes 
before DD closed and locked the door.