[HPforGrownups] Re: Locket or Time Turner? (Was: Hi! I'm new and theory about the new cover)

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 167091


Steve:

S> On the issue of Time Turners, I agree with what others
S> have said, just because the Ministries Time Turners 
S> were destroyed doesn't mean every time turner in 
S> existance was destroyed. Yet, I'm troubled by any
S> Time Turner solution, whether direct or indirect. I'm
S> especially against it, if it involves someone going
S> back and pretending to be someone else. 

Dave:

Here is my theory on Time Turners in Book 7:  I think Hogwarts is
going to stay open and our new Headmistress is going to *insist* that
Harry "be cool, stay in school", especially when he won't tell her why
he doesn't plan to.  In the end, Minerva will propose a compromise,
that the Trio can go off to do whatever task Dumbledore has assigned
to them, on the condition that they use a Time Turner to do their
Seventh Year at Hogwarts at the same time.  This will both allow Harry
to finish his formal education (after such a build-up over the
previous books, how can he *not* take his NEWTs??), and also throw
Umbridge off the scent, as I predict the Ministry will assign her to
the new post of Breather-Down-Potter's-Neck-In-Chief.

So I think a Time Turner will be used, but only as a means of allowing
the Trio to go to Hogwarts and hunt the horcruxes at the same time --
Hopefully no further Sci-Fi-ish temporal paradoxes will be brought
into play.


Dave