Ahha!! I've got it... Time-turner not a quick fix

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 122011


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" <vmonte at y...> wrote:
>> vmonte again:
> 
> I think the reason why Dumbledore says: "Terrible things happen to
> wizards that meddle with time" because terrible things have 
happened.
> DD is not completely all knowing, and he doesn't have the power to 
> predict when using a time-turner is always going to work. We have 
> only been told about the TT in one case, and it just happens to be 
on  a time it did work. We don't know if it has been used previously-
-but IMO it must have.
> 
> It was rather easily given to Hermione wasn't it? And do you really
> think it was for school? IMO DD/MM must have known that she was 
going to need it later on. Since SS/PS the children have been 
receiving the training necessary to accomplish certain goals 
(SSSusan and I have discussed this here previously). Are they being 
trained for something  in the future? Yes, I believe so.
(snip> I think that someone, with no experience using a TT, is going 
to use one causing catastrophic consequences.
> Vivian

Tonks here:

I think that the TT has been used before and DD knows about it, and 
it was used by TR/LV and it was what he did to prevent dying. All of 
this talk about killing your self and how that would mess up things 
in time. Why are we told that if it is not important. If you can 
kill your other self, maybe you can also cause yourself to be reborn 
in some sort of loop, like the phoenix does. I am sure *terrible 
things can happen to wizards that meddle with time* has happened. 
Also TT is one of those very advanced wizard skills that again only 
a few would know of. Maybe Tom Riddle got ahold of DD's somehow and 
messed around with it. I think TTers must be rare and only a few 
ever have them. Otherwise there would be more stories of the 
terrible things. Maybe the TT that Hermionie used was DD's. And yes 
he gave it to her and through her to Harry because they will be 
needing it again later and had to practice using it.

Tonks_op