What if...?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 168936

---  "Dana" <ida3 at ...> wrote:
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> What if..?
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> ...
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> What if... the one person that was present at GH was
> Harry but not just only present at this event but what
> if Harry travelled back in time before events on GH 
> occurred? ...edited...

bboyminn:

Just one problem, we have no precedent for time-travel
of that magnitude. The only examples of time-travel we
have occur in increments of one hour. That is, each turn
of the Time Turner moves you back ONE HOUR in time, and
only back. We've never seen forward time-travel.

So, Harry travels back 16 years, that's -

24hrs/day X 365days/yr X 16yrs = 140,160 

...turns of the Time Turner. 

That seems very impractical. At eight turns per minute,
it would take over 4.8 hours. Then, of course, how 
does he return to the present. From the examples in
the books, he just lives for another 16 years until
his time travel self catches up with his present day
self, except in the present, the instant before he 
travels back in time, Harry is 17. The next time he
arrives at that point in time, he is going to be 
(16+17=33) thirty three years old. And, if he has
been hanging around for 16 years, where has he been?

Still, it was a good thought.

Steve/bboyminn