[HPforGrownups] Re: Contradictions

[Kathy King]

No: HPFGUIDX 156622

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> Potioncat:
> It would seem, based on PoA, that when the person uses the TimeTurner,
> it affects everyone. That is, all Hermione's classmates experience her
> in the 9 AM class. Of course, that has 2 Hermiones in 2 different
> classes---good thing they don't have fire drills!
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> So, I'm not sure it would work that DD somehow used a TT to "become"
> headmaster at 2 different times.That was what I was thinking. I suppose
> a more realistic explanation (I really don't think it's a flint) is
> that DD became Headmaster around 1955, resigned for a while, and
> returned in the 1970s. There's only Dippet's portrait because whomever
> served in the interim isn't dead.
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> However, I agree, he could be using a TT for other reasons.
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> Snow:
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> Although it is a given that Riddle graduated in 1945 we don't know how
> long he worked for B&B before departing on his secret quest with the Dark
> sorts. Hepzibah stated that she told Tom a million times that they are
> working him too hard, or something to that effect, and Tom had come to her
> home many times for her to have entrusted him with the knowledge of her
> precious artifacts. It could have been many years until the Hokey incident
> and Dumbledore claimed that it took him sometime before retrieving the
> memory that she gave him. The timetable is wide open here.
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> The memory that is ten years after this incident could have been in 1970,
> which would give quite a span if Hokey's memory was not obtained until 1960
> but 'she' could play that if she wanted. That would give a fifteen-year span
> from the time that Riddle graduated and worked at B&B til the time that
> Dumbledore actually found Hokey and released the information from her mind
> until the time Voldemort came to ask for a job. Actually that would have
> Riddle working for B&B for only five years, which isn't that unbelievable.
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  Interesting that Voldemort was most likely in the castle, the year the
> Marauders and Snape first entered, asking for a position…Also quite a few of
> his present day followers were there also.
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> In fact it fits 'her' storyline perfectly that Voldemort came to seek a
> position in 1970 leaving exactly eleven years until the time he attempted to
> kill Harry giving credence to Dumbledore's statement that there was precious
> little to celebrate these past eleven years (paraphrased badly).
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> I don't have a problem with this scenario. I do have a bit of a problem
> with an auburn haired person turning entirely white in 15 years.
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> Oh by the way, I'm sorry your feeling so blue…you didn't even chuckle at
> my joke about F&G's beards. There must be something wrong. Have a butterbeer
> or a firewhiskey on me.
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> Snow
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