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Why should we believe that ALL of the time-turners in the world
were kept in one little cabinet?
That's even less realistic.[/b]
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I'm only saying I think JKR is doing that as her way of not having to deal with it anymore.
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And no, I don't think you could do too much damage unless you spend some time thinking about it.
If you went back and changed things too much, you wouldn't know that you had done it, so you couldn't do it. It has to be a near-miss, and you have to think of going back to change something that never happened.
It's not a sport for the shallow-minded.[/b]
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What you have described is some of the paradoxes that come with time-travel, which is what can make it problematic in storytelling if the storyteller isn't very careful. And this world has (or had) a bunch of time-turners, so it's not like they're a super limited thing, which makes it even more problem causing because they are readily available (well not quite, but not far from it relatively speaking).
If you can't go back in time and change something because it didn't happen therefore you would have never known to go back and change it, then nothing can be changed by time-turners at all. But that's obviously not the case in these stories as at one point someone says something to the effect of "Nasty things happen to wizards who mess with time."
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The Buckbeak story worked because they believed he died, when he never did.
Dumbledore was there and knew that Buckbeak survived, but he didn't tell.
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because they had already gone back in time and changed it. But they had to actually go back and change it for it to work.