Wasn’t test to check Harry’s Time turner too simple? Harry cheated very easy, he just used another person with Time turner. But this is grave matter, escape from Azkaban, and professors had chosen this kind of test...
Yeah, I don’t know why the test didn’t involve Time-Turning such that he would appear right in front of Dumbledore or whoever at three o’clock. It shouldn’t be too difficult to prevent cheating with the Cloak.
It doesn’t even require having thought of the test before three, just knowing where someone (Flitwick, etc) was at three, without actually seeing it yourself.
It couldn’t have been Dumbledore or McGonagall or Snape, could it? Because at the time they thought of testing Harry they had already not-experienced Harry appearing in front of them at 3:00. Which itself, though, I suppose, could be a clue pointing to Harry’s guilt. But maybe that’s too much like “messing with time”?
I wasn’t sure what time they were meeting- it seemed like it was a short time after retrieving Harry from lunch, but I couldn’t find any specifics. Even if it was after three, though, they could (for example) send a Patronus to Flitwick asking where he was at three o’clock, but not to tell them anything else but that; and have Harry come there at nine, tell him to tell Flitwick not to report his arrival to anyone before nine, then Time-Turn in front of them.
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Wasn’t test to check Harry’s Time turner too simple? Harry cheated very easy, he just used another person with Time turner. But this is grave matter, escape from Azkaban, and professors had chosen this kind of test...
Yeah, I don’t know why the test didn’t involve Time-Turning such that he would appear right in front of Dumbledore or whoever at three o’clock. It shouldn’t be too difficult to prevent cheating with the Cloak.
It doesn’t even require having thought of the test before three, just knowing where someone (Flitwick, etc) was at three, without actually seeing it yourself.
You don’t even need that. It’s enough to have someone with another Time-Turner accompany Harry back.
It couldn’t have been Dumbledore or McGonagall or Snape, could it? Because at the time they thought of testing Harry they had already not-experienced Harry appearing in front of them at 3:00. Which itself, though, I suppose, could be a clue pointing to Harry’s guilt. But maybe that’s too much like “messing with time”?
I wasn’t sure what time they were meeting- it seemed like it was a short time after retrieving Harry from lunch, but I couldn’t find any specifics. Even if it was after three, though, they could (for example) send a Patronus to Flitwick asking where he was at three o’clock, but not to tell them anything else but that; and have Harry come there at nine, tell him to tell Flitwick not to report his arrival to anyone before nine, then Time-Turn in front of them.