Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-26601629-20150805064853/@comment-26601629-20150808213210

NervousShipper wrote: The problem with that analogy, LadyX, is that the time turner in Harry Potter only allows you to "change" things you've already changed. It's like their existance created stable time loops for people to predestendly follow. Otherwise, people would be using it to save their parents. You can use it to save your parents, It's why its a banned item, regulated by the ministry. It's essentially how Sirius was saved, You are looking at it in terms of the present self, based off what harry said. You shouldn't, you should look at it from the future self aspect. The concept of time travel is one of the most confusing things ever, paradoxes and stuff. Rowlings made a point of letting her characters not change anything from the past in other to avoid complications that would arise, and the Harry seeing himself thing, that's one way it could have gone. Another way was harry waiting for his father until the dementors gave him the kiss and the future self dissapearing from existence because of the changed timeline. The main question to ask is, when the present dissapear, where do they go? After Future Harry completed his task and returned to the hospital wing, the present self where using the time-turner, where do they go? Thats why time-travel is messed up