Time Turners and Lupin's apparent premature ageing

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 156977

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ken Hutchinson" <klhutch at ...>
wrote:
>
> > 
> > bboyminn:
> > 
> > ...I think Lupin's aging is related to the tremendous
> > level of stress he endures in his daily life and in 
> > his werewolf transformations.
> > 
> > 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > ... To age one extra year over the course of three normal
> > years, one would have to engage ... 2,920 hours per year.
> ... the average 40 hour work week ... 2080 hours per year.
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> 
> Ken:
> 
> I agree that the stress of being a werewolf ....
> ...
>  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. 
> ...
> The time turner: it's the one place JKR *shouldn't* have
> gone.
> 
> Ken
>

bboyminn:

The only time turners we have seen work in one hour increments. There
could be others, but we've only seen 'hour' Time Turners.

So, assuming one turn per second of time, the time turner would have
to spin for 2.4 continuous hours to go back a year. Two spins per
second would mean 1.7 hours of spinning. Not impossible, but that is a
long time to sit and keep a time turner spinning. Then, to catch up
with yourself, you would have to live a whole year and be on the spot
to take over for your-about-to-time-travel-self when you disappear. 

I hestiate to get into this, but what if you died during your year of
time travel, there would be no you to take over for you at the instant
you time traveled. While I don't want to start another discussion on
the mechanic of time travel, I am trying to point out that the greater
the span of time in which you time travel, the greater the risk that
you will never come back.

I would also like to point out that while time traveling, you must be
very careful not to alter time/history in any significant way, or the
furture you were in when you time traveled may not be there when you
get back. (The Butterfly Effect)

These are just more reasons and more complications that confirm to me
that no one is doing any significant time travel in the books.

Time Turners could appear again, but, if they are used, the time frame
will be short and the consequences to time and history will be small.

Just a thought.

Steve/bboyminn