Time Turner...(TT during PoA)

[sandra87b]

No: HPFGUIDX 122922


> Gah. Now my head spins.
> 
> ~TrekkieGrrrl
> (who loves timetravel stories)


Hello TrekkieGrrrl,

I am SO sorry for starting this one! Headaches all round, and more to 
come....
Anyway, thanks for replying, your ideas were great to read! I was doing fine 
until you started on the Timeline B and Timeline C theories, and then 
something exploded inside my head... now I'm not sure of my own name 
anymore...

I love those time paradox scenarios, because the actual answer always 
remains elusive due to so many potential answers being right... or wrong. 
Sometimes a writer tries to tackle them by suggesting theories, rather than  
leaving them for readers/viewers to wonder about (or miss completely). Have  
you read The Guardian Of Time? That's what got me started on all this Time  
Line theorising - there are whole sections intended to 'help' but nobody 
understands them even in the book. I love to laugh without being made to feel  
foolish at my own intelectual limitations!

I'm going to apologise to you for repeating the next section from replies I 
gave to other people about all this, so please don't feel I'm being lazy. This 
next bit occurred to me when Sirius died in Book 5:

There's another issue here - I think all the HP stories are undermined by the 
Time Turner's own existence. If the spell or technology exists which can 
influence time, nothing is final unless the ability to create such a piece is very, 
very restricted. Which in Harry's world, it isn't. I would have thought that 
anyone with such a piece could change whatever they wanted. If the 
all-powerful Voldemort got hold of it, he could prevent Harry being born either 
in a very subtle way (prevent Mr & Mrs Potter marrying) or by going back in  
time and killing Harry at any stage of his life. Likewise, Dumbledore could do  
the same to Voldermort... and let's not forget that Harry could go back and 
save Sirius in Book 5, or prevent the death in Book 4 (forgotten the poor  
chap's name). And maybe, just maybe, he could give it a really good spin and 
go back and save his parents etc etc... you see where this is going?
So because the Time Turner exists as it is shown to, nothing is final. Whoever 
holds that holds a huge amount of power, because that power is not 
restricted or regulated. And don't get me started on the potential if there's  
more than one Time Turner - after all, why shouldn't there be? In my view, 
the whole series of stories gets horribly undermined by one simple plot-aid in 
Book 3. Doesn't it?

By the way, if you love time-travelling stories do have a look at The Guardian 
Of Time. It's my absolute favourite book, and turned my brain to mush with all 
the Parallel Time Lines and Temporary Alternate Realities... it's very funny, 
but I hardly know anyone who's read it. I love the Harry Potter series, and that 
one is a nice diversion!

Sandra