Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 16: Professor Trelawney's prediction
zanooda2
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Thu Apr 14 19:34:38 UTC 2011
No: HPFGUIDX 190230
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bart at ...> wrote:
> Harry smiled at his parents. "It was really a great idea to
> take Hermione's Time Turner and go back in time with the
> evidence that Tommy Riddle had opened the Chamber of Secrets.
> I learned at Hogwarts that he passed away in Azkaban 15 years ago."
> "Who knows what would have happened if he had gotten away with
> it?", asked James.
zanooda:
I'm pretty sure time-turners can be used for short-term time travel only. Each turn of Hermione's time-turner sends you back one hour, right? I'm not good with numbers, but there are way too many hours in 50 years to use the time-turner the way you suggest. They would probably need to spend a whole year just turning the hourglass to send Harry 50 years back :-).
And then, as far as we know, a time-turner can only send you back in time, but not forward, which means that even if Harry *could* go 50 years back (hypothetically, because he can't), he would be stuck in the past for those 50 years. That's not good :-), and too confusing for my taste...
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