Time Turners and Lupin's apparent premature ageing

[Ken Hutchinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 156929

> 
> bboyminn:
> 
> I seriously doubt that Dumbledore or Lupin's aging is Time Travel
> related. I think Lupin's aging is related to the tremendous level of
> stress he endures in his daily life and in his werewolf transformations.
> 
> 

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> So, to age years, one would have to do an astronomical amount of
> time-turning. To age one extra year over the course of three normal
> years, one would have to engage in 8,760 hours of time travel, or
> 2,920 hours per year. For reference the average 40 hour work week is
> only 2080 hours per year.
> 
> Based on this, I think it is unlikely that anyone is doing any kind of
> substantial long term time travel. 
> 

Ken:

I agree that the stress of being a werewolf trying to fit into a
society that hates you is enough to account for Lupin's condition. And
you give a very good account of why a time turner *must* cause aging,
whether it is so stated in canon or not. After all if time turners
could prevent aging they would be very popular devices, wouldn't they?
 But, it wouldn't be hard to age yourself an extra year, just give
that time turner one mighty spin and you'd go back a year easily. You
could place a bet on the Quidditch World Cup while you were back there....

The time turner: it's the one place JKR *shouldn't* have gone.

Ken