Why a Time-Turner won't work for GH (WasNewbie theory - Harry at Godric's Hollow

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 163937

Carol:
> So the only way for HRH to obtain a Time-Turner is to conveniently
> find one in the ruins of the house at Godric's Hollow (If Lily was
> an Unspeakable, as some posters think, she might have owned or 
> borrowed a Time-Turner). And how extra-convenient if it were a
> dayglass or weekglass or monthglass rather than an hourglass. (It 
> all smacks of deus ex machina to me, but I'll go along with the 
> scenario for the fun of it). <snipped analysis of how Hermione
> would figure out how to use such a convenient time-turner>

Ken:
> That is how muggles would do it though. These kids are wizards.
> Just charm the calibrated turner to spin the required number of
> times at a spin rate that produces the total trip through time in
> a minute of your subjective time. Magic makes life easy!
<snipped thought of Hermione the Dead Head here, lol>

> No, I don't think we will ever see a time turner again and if we do
> I will lose all respect for the author. She never should have
> introduced them but I will give her a pass because she *seems* to 
> have realized that, if belatedly. The only time travel stories I 
> have ever liked are those that are played for laughs and in the 
> hands of a talented author they can be wickedly funny.


Jen:  Hold on, we're talking about the queen of magical objects and 
plots bordering on deus ex machina here!  We have two watches out 
there now, one unnaccounted for and neither explained, and one of 
them appeared in chapter 1, book one, *right* after one of the 
biggest event in WW history.  On the wrist of the Man with the Plan 
no less, the same guy who used time travel extensively in his quest 
to defeat Voldemort.  If Dumbledore used a MOM-approved time tuner 
for all that travel, I might have to rethink how clever he is. ;)

And Ron got what looked to be an interesting watch for his birthday, 
he didn't seem too upset there were stars instead of hands and odd 
symbols on the edges, he even seemed to know *why* the watch didn't 
look like a regular watch, but.....oh, Harry wasn't really paying 
attention to Ron or the watch so we didn't get to hear Harry 
ask, 'what's wrong with your watch?' and Ron be perplexed yet again 
at how little Harry knows about the magical world.

Then you have all the time-turners conveniently smashed and pointed 
out by Hermione so everyone will know beyond a doubt there will be No 
More Time Travel?  

I'd bet quite a few galleons we're going to see something happen with 
time in DH even if it doesn't look or act exactly like the time-
turners.  JKR has too many interesting clocks and watches in her 
world for those objects to have no purpose and I don't understand why 
she (of all authors) would sneak that watch to Ron, unexplained and 
almost unnoticed, for nothing.

Jen, buckling up her seat belt for a wild ride on the time-space 
contiuum in DH.