Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 22: Owl Post Again

[Jean]

No: HPFGUIDX 191257

> > 8. Disregarding the needs of the author for plot development,
should Hermione have told Harry and Ron much earlier about the
time-turner? If you were Hermione, would you have told the boys
sooner?
>
> Nathaniel:
> Yes. It really makes no sense for the boys not to know. If, by
chance, they had seen two Hermiones at one time, then the boys may
have suspected the worst. I don't see how now knowing could possible
> benefit Harry and Ron, but there are many ways it could go wrong.

Jean:
- I quite agree, however, telling them would have served no purpose
in the plot, and I don't think we're supposed to think too deeply
about this issue, it was seemingly just a convenient plot device for
that book, which Rowling then had to gloss over a bit as to why they'd
never been used before/after, and mention that all the TimeTurners
were destroyed.