[HPforGrownups] Re: Time Turners and Lupin's apparent premature ageing

[fair wynn]

No: HPFGUIDX 157004


>Ken:
>
>If the MoM had a cabinet full of time turners surely some of them were
>calibrated at more than one hour per turn. It doesn't really matter though.
>Hand me that time turner will you? Thanks. Let's see are the bearings 
>free?:
>
>Yes they are! No sweat, I just give the gizmo a flick with the end of my
>finger and wheeeee! we've gone back a day and a half in a few seconds.
>Now I will just pull this can of compressed air for cleaning lenses out of
>my desk drawer, aim the stream at the time turner,  and hang onto your
>hat, we're going BAAAAAaaaaack!!!
>
>--OR--
>
>Drat! The bearings are stiff. Ok, we'll just tape this little strip of 
>plastic
>carefully around the hourglass so it makes a little wheel. Now I get out
>my battery powered Dremel tool, tighten the rubber mandrel that usually
>holds a sanding drum into the chuck, crank it up to 20 krpm, hold the
>mandrel against our makeshift wheel and Captain we're moving at warp
>10 in reverse NOOOooooowwww!!!
>
>Ok, either way we're back. It was Krum to get the Snitch and Ireland
>to win, right? Just be sure not to place the bet with Bagman and we've
>got a few years to plan how to use the winnings. Or, do you suppose
>that if we spun this thing the other way that we would go forward??
>
>I don't think that is too hard. Sometimes if you want to solve a problem
>you have to think like a Muggle. Canon may not support anything
>other than hour time turners and maybe you can't go forward, only
>back. Who cares? We cleaned up big time on the World Cup. Be
>patient and enjoy life.

>Ken:
>
>I don't see the problem. If you take a journey by boat and the boat
>goes down, you drown. Your friends mourn you, the universe yawns.
>And why would time travel be any different? No one needs to take over
>for you if you are dead. Your life ended, you are now living in the
>bosom of Abraham. It's even better than winning big on the World
>Cup.

wynnleaf
Ken, these have got to be some of the funniest comments I've read in a long 
time.  Thanks for the laughs!



>Ken:
>
>I don't agree with your reasons but I too hope that this technology does
>not reappear in the final book. Time travel is a deadly trap that few
>writers escape from alive.

wynnleaf
I agree.  I think that's why JKR had OOTP reveal that the time-turners were 
gone.  Not so she could bring out a few later.

wynnleaf

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