Time Turners

[lucianam73]

No: HPFGUIDX 142288

Smilingator wrote (also hugely snipped):

> I agree with you that the answer to the question is that the time
> turners were "conveniently" ALL gathered in one area and destroyed.
> And you are right, there would be no other reason the characters
> couldn't use the things. And if they made the decision to use them,
> they still wouldn't have been able to change anything because what 
> has already happened can't change. I just think JKR thought ahead 
> and wanted to avoid that whole sticky argument, which, haha... 
> still comes up at least once a month on here

Lucianam:

Yep, but even with Time Travel being sticky (as smilingator put it) 
and all Time Turners being gone, it's very likely JKR will pull more 
TTs in B7.

Judging from PoA then_ specially the bit about Harry being able to 
produce a Patronus because his self-from-the-future had done it 
before _ the Time Travel (or Time Travels) which seem likely to 
happen in Book 7 will probably follow the lines of necessity, 
fatality and overall we-have-to-go-back-in-the-past-because-we-have-
already-time-travelled! sense, rather than simply a wish to bring 
loved ones back form the dead. Thanks for a enlightening (but 
disheartening _ no bring Sirius from Veil then) discussion.

Only if TT is really happening in B7 how are the kids (assuming the 
Trio are travelling) doing it? In PoA they had Dumbledore to tell 
them they should do it, what they were supposed to do once they were 
in the past, when in time they were supposed to arrive... 

I suspect Ron's new watch could have something to do with it, maybe 
it's Dumbledore's same watch from PS/SS first chapter? 

It could be that watch, if it's some kind of time-travelling device, 
and maybe Dumbledore has already set it (like an alarm clock). The 
descriptions are almost identical except for the hands and the 
images around the edges. I'm just guessing wildly (obviously) but 
wouldn't it be like Dumbledore to have set he watch to the right 
time and place the kids are supposed to travel (supposing it can 
place-travel too!) and leave it after he was gone. So that'd explain 
the differences, it's the same watch only in PS it's not set to TT 
and in HBP it is. 

Lucianam (hmm, too much Coke maybe but still fun)