How important is maintaining continuity for the time turners? If it IS important, then you can only end up with 6 you’s (It’s noon, go back to 11, pick up that you, go back to 10, pick up that you, etc...)
BUT! If your mission takes more than an hour, you will end up with a discontinuity, since then 6:00!you will not be back in time to be 7:00!you so that you’s can pick him up.
If continuity is NOT important: Go back an hour. Now there are two of you’s. Both you’s wait around two hours, then both of you go back and pick up the past you’s. Now there are four of you’s. All four of you’s wait around two hours, etc.… You’d end up with 64 you’s (assuming you can animagus into a something really small to fit in the pouch that is)
Consistency is important. We see this in full force in the Azkaban arc.
To get 6 of yourself, starting at noon, you wouldn’t go back to 11, then “together” go back to 10. You have already created a paradox because the original 11 o’clock you was supposed to wait until noon and then go back in time. Instead, at 11, you would walk into a room with 5 other copies of you waiting, and then at noon, you and 4 of those copies would go back in time to 11.
How important is maintaining continuity for the time turners? If it IS important, then you can only end up with 6 you’s (It’s noon, go back to 11, pick up that you, go back to 10, pick up that you, etc...)
BUT! If your mission takes more than an hour, you will end up with a discontinuity, since then 6:00!you will not be back in time to be 7:00!you so that you’s can pick him up.
If continuity is NOT important: Go back an hour. Now there are two of you’s. Both you’s wait around two hours, then both of you go back and pick up the past you’s. Now there are four of you’s. All four of you’s wait around two hours, etc.… You’d end up with 64 you’s (assuming you can animagus into a something really small to fit in the pouch that is)
Aaaaagh! Time travel makes my head hurt
Reality computes in one swoop. It simply wouldn’t happen.
Consistency is important. We see this in full force in the Azkaban arc.
To get 6 of yourself, starting at noon, you wouldn’t go back to 11, then “together” go back to 10. You have already created a paradox because the original 11 o’clock you was supposed to wait until noon and then go back in time. Instead, at 11, you would walk into a room with 5 other copies of you waiting, and then at noon, you and 4 of those copies would go back in time to 11.