But " terrible things happen to wizards who meddle with time". Unless they use it for innocuous goals, like taking an extrra class, which honest to god I wish I could do as well.
I have a feeling that the people who make this argument never actually read the books. Do you know how complicated time turners are? And the concept of time in general? The biggest argument, I think, is that if one team used time turners, then the other team could, too. Say the Order used a time turner to try and stop the Potters from being murdered, or something like that; why couldn't the Death Eaters use one to try and meet their goals, too? The answer: it would have fucked EVERYTHING up beyond repair. Neither the Order nor the Death Eaters are dumbasses. Like lihea said, time turners are best used for innocuous goals.
you can only change, what has been changed, we never SAW buckbeak getting the axe, so it was preventable. the prisoners fled from azkaban, there were pics in the damn paper, so it couldn't be changed. goddamnit, people, it not the 11th doctor with the tardis rewriting evyerything he damn well pleases, this is harry potter, so don't have a rack attack over things that were damn well explained.
This comment relates to AdrenalineKisses' comment, in the way that we only actually see the events in the movies. When it comes to the books, there is no notion of see or not see.
According to Professor Saul Croaker, who has spent his entire career in the Department of Mysteries studying time-magic:
“ As our investigations currently stand, the longest period that may be relived without the possibility of serious harm to the traveller or to time itself is around five hours. We have been able to encase single Hour-Reversal Charms, which are unstable and benefit from containment, in small, enchanted hour-glasses that may be worn around a witch or wizard’s neck and revolved according to the number of hours the user wishes to relive.
All attempts to travel back further than a few hours have resulted in catastrophic harm to the witch or wizard involved."
It was not realised for many years why time travellers over great distances never survived their journeys. All such experiments have been abandoned since 1899, when Eloise Mintumble became trapped, for a period of five days, in the year 1402. Now we understand that her body had aged five centuries in its return to the present and, irreparably damaged, she died in St Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries shortly after we managed to retrieve her. What is more, her five days in the distant past caused great disturbance to the life paths of all those she met, changing the course of their lives so dramatically that no fewer than twenty-five of their descendants vanished in the present, having been “un-born”."
http://pottermore.wikia.com/wiki/Time-Turner
NO CHANGIN DA PUST! 1) Voldemo… he who must not be named would still be at large killing muggles like you 2) I forgot what the other ones where so imma end it here.
None of them were Ravenclaw
“ As our investigations currently stand, the longest period that may be relived without the possibility of serious harm to the traveller or to time itself is around five hours. We have been able to encase single Hour-Reversal Charms, which are unstable and benefit from containment, in small, enchanted hour-glasses that may be worn around a witch or wizard’s neck and revolved according to the number of hours the user wishes to relive.
All attempts to travel back further than a few hours have resulted in catastrophic harm to the witch or wizard involved."
http://pottermore.wikia.com/wiki/Time-Turner