Time-turning (Was: World Building And The Potterverse)

[dungrollin]

No: HPFGUIDX 167399

> Ken:
> I understand perfectly well the time travel theory used in HP and 
I understand perfectly well that it seems more serious to many of 
you. It is still an ugly wart to me. 
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In Harry Potter it seems jarring and unneccesssary. Rowling decided 
she wanted to write a time travel story so it got tacked on. 
<snip>
POA would work just as well without time travel.

Dungrollin:

Would you feel better about it if it turned out to be vitally 
important for book 7? Not in that they use time travel again, but 
the effects of the events in PoA. 'Cause I was just doing some 
elementary maths...

Harry jumped back and lived three hours over again, but he never 
jumped forwards, so he is now three hours older than he should be. 
Does this mean that the blood protection will expire three hours 
earlier than Harry thinks, and did Pettigrew hang around long enough 
in rat form to see Timetravelling Harry and Hermione, deduce what 
they had done, and tell Voldemort? 

Dungrollin
Thinking it could just as easily be ESE!Lupin who spilled the 
beans...