*MY* confusion about the Time Turner

[vmonte]

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>meltowne wrote:
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I agree with you here - but would take it a step further. I suspect
two possibilities regarding the time turner. Obviously it is not
something everybody has access to, for obvious reasons. I appears
that using it to go back more than 2 or 3 hours may cause problems.
Maybe there is a way to detect its use, maybe it causes a small rift
in time - larger the farther back you go.

Also as you suggest below, small changes can caus larger more
significant changes farther in the future. I recall reading a book
several years ago where someone tried to prevent Lincoln's
assassination, only to have him die an hour later of something else.
If the time turner could be used to go back many years, why didn't
Dumbledore just go back and plant evidence implicating Tom Riddle as
the heir of Slytherin? Maybe because he knows that such a change
would have enormous implications.


vmonte responds:
Your Lincoln comment reminds me of what happened to Sirius. He was 
saved in PoA but died a couple of years later in OOTP. 

Vivian