Timeturner question - comments anyone?

[Sandra Collins]

No: HPFGUIDX 135672

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Auria" <rytal at y...> 
wrote:
> Does anyone know what happened to Hermione's timeturner 
which she had throughout PoA?  A possible hole in the plot me 
thinks!
> 
> Auria

Sandra writes:
Hi Auria,
I have such a bee in my bonnet about that wretched time turner, 
not just because book 3 does not work (don't worry, I'm not 
triggering off that thread again!) but also because you are spot 
on with your comment - anybody in books 4 and 5 could be 
saved, and the great big kop-out in book 6 whereby it's claimed 
that 'all' of the TTs were broken or destroyed, is ludicrous.  How 
can any character say for sure that all TTs were in the same 
place? And if it was possible to make a bunch of them, what's to 
stop anyone from making a bunch more?

JKR opened a can of worms once she started incorporating the 
concept of unregulated timetravel into the stories. She used it as 
a plot device, but didn't introduce any rules and regulations for 
controlling it. As such it's a loose cannon, and has been blasting 
holes through the WW world (for me, at least) ever since. I could 
drone on about using a TT to stop the parents of HP or LV ever 
meeting etc etc, but that's already been done so I won't. But I will 
say that JKR does tend to walk a path of convenience in regard 
to it.

As for Hermione's TT, she apparently handed it back, but I don;t 
know what happened to it after the teacher took it. I assume it's 
in a drawer, waiting for the right moment in book 7 to appear 
again.

Sandra