This is why it makes your head hurt: if DD sent Hagrid back in time to fetch Harry, why didn't he just tweak the time turner one more time so that Hagrid could rescue the whole effin' family?
Since it's Hagrid, I'd say it's because he would probably make a colossal botch of it and they'd end up with four dead instead of two, but of course that begs the question of why not send someone else or even go himself or send Hagrid waaaay back, say, a few days, so there's no chance that he'd run into Voldemort & Co? All I can guess is that Harry's survival was so miraculous that any thought of time traveling back and risking undoing that would be right out. Dumbledore wouldn't want to risk upsetting the prophecy in some way.
Time travel makes my head hurt, too. The only way I can fathom Time Turners being in existence and yet not completely screwing up the wizarding world is to hypothesize that they're either (a) insanely heavily guarded (probably not true - if a bright, responsible schoolgirl can get one, they may be guarded but it's not exactly Fort Knox) or (b) they only turn back to a certain point, say, three days ago. I think this one is contradicted in canon but I like to pretend.
Because they'd already found James and Lily's bodies, so obviously they didn't survive.
I think JKR has said that you can't change the past. How this works, I'm not really inclined to go further into, knowing where these discussions always lead on HPFGU.
I haven't re-read OotP or HBP either, for much the same reasons as you. I'm glad you're doing this. I also plan to re-read all 6 books before the 7th comes out.
Time travel--ouch. Interesting theory. Yes, it's brain-killing, but so are the best HP theories!
In the British edition, Dumbledore eats Sherbet Lemons, a proprietary sweet consisting of a hard lemon-flavoured outer shell, with sherbet powder (which fizzes on contact with water) inside.
Sorbet means a water ice here as in Canada.
'Sherbet' and 'sorbet' are etymologically related, but very distantly.
Ah, a spelling error on my part then, since I do have the British editions. I think I've seen 'sorbet' spelled 'sherbet' here, though not on the actual products, but by confused people like me.
Did you see the comment I left on your entry about "Night Watch?" The moment I realized there was a book set partly in my hometown I had to run to the library, which sure enough had copies. I read it on the bus to join my family for vacation in the States. Wonderful writing and characters, but on top of that, I could *see* everything he described. I was particularly impressed by what he did with the High Level Bridge. I'd always thought I was the only person to feel how sinister that bridge was. I'm less familiar with Vancouver's Chinatown and the rainforest, but know them well enough to have a feel for them.
Forgot to answer your question. Night Watch and Nobody's Son, which I loved. And Galveston, which I liked, but felt that the premise was better than the resolution.
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Time travel makes my head hurt, too. The only way I can fathom Time Turners being in existence and yet not completely screwing up the wizarding world is to hypothesize that they're either (a) insanely heavily guarded (probably not true - if a bright, responsible schoolgirl can get one, they may be guarded but it's not exactly Fort Knox) or (b) they only turn back to a certain point, say, three days ago. I think this one is contradicted in canon but I like to pretend.
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I think JKR has said that you can't change the past. How this works, I'm not really inclined to go further into, knowing where these discussions always lead on HPFGU.
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Time travel--ouch. Interesting theory. Yes, it's brain-killing, but so are the best HP theories!
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Sorbet means a water ice here as in Canada.
'Sherbet' and 'sorbet' are etymologically related, but very distantly.
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