Newbie theory - Harry at Godric's Hollow

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 163870

Anne Squires wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure what I think of this idea.  I'll have to think about it
for a while.  But, if it turns out to be true, perhaps it is time
traveling Harry who gives the invisiblity cloak to Dumbledore.  Didn't
JKR say that we, the fans, should be asking ourselves from whom did DD
receive this cloak/how did it come to be in DD's possession?

Carol responds:

It takes one turn for the Time Turner to take the user back one hour.
Even if Harry got hold of one or found one that had, say, belonged to
Lily, he would have to figure out exactly how many hours it would take
to go back to October 31, 1981. Let's say, for simplicity's sake, that
he visits Godric's Hollow just before midnight on October 31, 1997. He
needs to multiply 24 hours in a day times 365 days a year times
sixteen years, not counting an extra day for the Leap Years (1984,
1988, 1992, 1996) that occurred in between. By my calculations, that's
exactly 140,256 turns of the Time Turner. If we calculate one turn per
second, that's approximately  minutes or roughly 39 hours of standing
there turning the Time Turner, trying not to lose count or allow
anything to distract him (like eating, sleeping, or using the
bathroom), and the same thing for the return trip back to 1997.
Somehow, I don't think that's feasible. It's one thing to go back an
hour or even three hours at a time; quite another to go back sixteen
years. He needs a more reliable method of Time Travel. A Muggle sci-fi
time machine not being available, I think he'll have to settle for a
memory, presumably his own, placed in a Pensieve. Of course, he'll
need a Legilimens to extract it for him and a Pensieve to put it in,
but no doubt that can be arranged.

As for the Invisibility Cloak, IIRC, DD says in the note he includes
with the cloak when Harry receives it as a Christmas present in SS/PS
that James placed it in his (DD's) keeping before he died.

Carol, sure that Harry will learn about Godric's Hollow somehow but
not by Time Turner