So I figured out how to solve all of Harry Potter's problems. You know that nifty time turner thing? Why did they not keep it and use it?! "Oh, you killed Sirius? That's cool, because I can just reverse time and prevent it!", amirite?

There are different rules about time travel, and it's extremely hard to get permission from the Ministry of Magic to use a time turner.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yet they still give them out to school girls so they can go to extra classes?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No, not "girls." Girl. Hermione was a special case, as she was an exceptional student.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

So, uh... all those deaths were better than using a time turner? That's like saying, I would have driven my dying daughter to the hospital, but I couldn't because driving is dangerous.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's no fun though

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Pft, Harry Potter didn't have much fun past book 2 or 3, mate.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

*sigh* what I mean is that's no fun for the reader because if that was the case somebody could have went back in time and stopped LV from killing Harry's parents or just killed LV when he was in that orphanage thing .. See them there would be no story and no story = no fun

by Anonymous 12 years ago

LV? Fear of the name only leads to fear of the thing itself. Unless youre just too lazy to write out Lord Voldemort in which case I have no epic quotes for you...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes this tiny touch pad is really a bitch to me sometimes. If you're offended that I did not write it out then here I'll do it for you now...LORD VOLDEMORT.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

People seem to forget that you can only turn the time Turner back six times.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Sure.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

?? I wasn't really sure what to say, so I just agreed with you

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Oh okay i just didn't know what you meant lol

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah but you could do it 6 times. then 6 more. then 6 more. ect

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Oh, I always though people could loop-hole that by using multiple timeturners. I think what JK meant was that using a single time turner could only allow you to go back six hours, and that was it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You mean that nifty time turner thing that doesn't exist because they destroyed them all?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Except that they were destroyed in 1996, which was their 6th year of school. There were problems they could have solved.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But then since they solved all the problems, there would be no need to destroy them?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well the concept that I had in my mind was just with the example provided, Sirius' death. He dies, Harry's all angry and what not, I just don't see his excuse in not going over to where ever they keep those bad boys in the Ministry of Magic, and reverse time. Maybe even help himself and Sirius out in the battle. Sure its breaking the rules, but lets face it, that's how you win. Doctor House? Wining. Gibbs? Winning. Granted that response got off topic, the gist is that he should have used the magic know as "time travel" to fix his issues.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

just to disclaim that example. the time turners were destroyed before sirius was killed

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Specifically, in JUNE 1996 - which was still their FIFTH year of school. They were destroyed accidentally just before Sirius was killed, in the Department of Mysteries. Besides, it's literally impossible to change the past.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Time travel doesn't work that way, though. If you pay attention to the third book, they never actually changed anything.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I love that concept, the only thing is that then you get into having to talk about fate vs. free will and the theoretical impossibility of time travel. In the end it will be a confusing mess.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah I've had some interesting conversations about time travel. Apparently the popular opinion is that when you time travel you create a second equal universe and destroy the first. It's pretty crazy stuff.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

BEECOZZ DAS NUT HOW IT WERX

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But why did the nut break the wand

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Don't you just love how defensive Potter nerds get about the books? "N-NO BECAUSE IT JUST COULDN'T OKAY, SHE EXPLAINED IT SHE EXPLAAAAAINED IT. >:("

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Wouldn't it be a paradox? Or something? Cause the only reason they'd go back in time was to save him, then they'd change history, and make there be no reason for them to go back in time in the first place.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

See my long comment above. The concept of time travel, in general, is a paradox.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Finally someone said it. And for going back in time to kill Voldemort then you would ever get to a position where you need to do that. If you accept time travel is real then you must accept that we are not making our futures. Simply discovering them as they come along.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But that's how it had to happen. There's a set way for things to happen, and you can't change that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well, they would have to stay in hiding for like 423847032487924793847923487-248792......miliseconds otherwise if they get caught, they get their magical asses kicked

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Maybe there would have been paradoxes they wouldn't have been able to deal with. They used the time turner to kill Voldemort, but then Voldemort would've been killed so they wouldn't have used the time turner. But then Voldemort would be alive, so they would have used the time turner, resulting in an endless loop that would ultimately cause everything including space and time to unwind and cease to exist. It's really not that complicated when you think about it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago