The Time-Turner Question in PoA

[ciraarana]

This thesis is killing me! Seriously. I just changed the the entire outline. Again. Argh.

Anyway, I'm fighting my way through Prisoner of Azkaban, and the Time-Turner thing made me wonder. You see, as Michael Maar points out in his book, how could Snape not have known about the Time-Turner? When Sirius Black mysteriously vanishes from Professor

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[ciraarana]

No, Dumbledore doesn't tell Snape to "create a distraction". Not within Harry's hearing range. But it's quite obvious that there is a lot going on in the series that Harry isn't aware of. So I thought, why not this?

Fudge not knowing about the Time Turner: well, Time Turners are Department of Mysteries stuff and we don't know how much the Minister has to say about what they do. Perhaps Fudge's signature was really not necessary. Though I would tend to think it was.

Conversely, if Fudge didn't have any idea, Dumbledore's words were a warning to Snape not to go on like he did because that might result in Fudge clueing in.

But in the end, I'm just looking for something that makes Dumbledore look a little less like a heartless bastard. *shrugs*

I really hate his self-righteous attitude. "Why, Severus, you put your faith in the wrong person, now you must spend the rest of your life doing whatever I tell you. What? Grindelwald? Deathly Hallows? But I stopped it, didn't I? Ah, yes, only after my sister got killed. It was such a sad mistake in my life, woe is me."

[ladyathenis]

Time Turners are Department of Mysteries stuff...

Oh yeah! I'd forgotten about that. One little mention of such in the book, and how quickly you forget.
::facepalm::

I didn't think of Dumbledore as being heartless, perhaps in a very tight situation at certain times, and well... he did what any other cunning person would've done to save not only "other innocents involved", but himself as well. Maybe that's just my way of seeing him.

But I will admit that a lot of the things that Harry questioned him about later on (HBP & DH), he kind of danced around the truth. I got the impression that Dumbledore left Harry to finish all on his own without a lot of important information that could have made things easier. I feel also that had it not been for Hermione's quick mind in order to figure out and suggest things, Harry would have been a sitting duck.

Snape still is a mystery to me. HBP left me going "Duh? Is he or isn't he a double agent for both Voldemort and Dumbledore?" That's the impression I got. I guess I'll have to reread HBP and DH with a more fine-toothed comb mentality to understand the subtleness to him.

But it does make for an interesting perspective, true there.

^O.~^