Paradox of Time Travel in PoA - The Twist.

[Julia French]

No: HPFGUIDX 132090

> <smilingator81 at a...> wrote:
> > ...edited...
> > "Nobody's supposed to change time!" (page 398, US) Hermione 
> > didn't say that you CAN'T change time, just that you are not 
> > supposed to ...
> >
> > "Professor McGonagall told me what awful things have happened 
> > when wizards have meddled with time... Loads of them ended up 
> > killing their past or future selves by mistake!" (page 399, US). 

 bboyminn wrote:
> These are warnings from a stern teacher to a precocious little 
> girl who is somewhat prone to getting herself in dangerous 
> situations. We really can't take these as anything more than 
> hearsay. We don't know the truth of them beyond the fact that 
> McGonagall was trying to impress on Hermione that the Time
> Turner was not a toy to be played with; it was indeed a 
> dangerous object. So whether these things are true or whether 
> they were scare tactics by McGonagall we really don't know. 


However, Mcgonagall had been teaching Hermione for two years when 
she said this.  She would have been well aware that one of 
Hermione's first actions on hearing about time-turners would 
probably be to go to the library and read up about them.  Therefore 
she is hardly likely to have given her false - or even very exaggerated - information about anything concerning them.

Julia - making her first post