Wait, but it seemed to be fairly clear that it’s time travel from the slip-ups H&C made. (Of course, you’d have to postulate a different form of time travel that allows for paradoxes, so I suppose Obliviation has a point up on that...)
The sentence “Time...” is in response to a question from Hermione about how H&C knows Harry will turn dark and destroy her, not in regards to anything having to do with the conversation itself.
Also if you reread the passage in question, you’ll see several hints that indicate a long time passed for Hermione also, even though she didn’t remember it, e.g. *”Her hand was almost slipping on her wand, there was a sense of fatigue in her fingers like she’d been holding the wand for hours instead of minutes”, and ofcourse the fact that the rush of adrenaline at the beginning of the conversations corresponds to the rush of fear at H&C decloaking at the end.
Wait, but it seemed to be fairly clear that it’s time travel from the slip-ups H&C made. (Of course, you’d have to postulate a different form of time travel that allows for paradoxes, so I suppose Obliviation has a point up on that...)
The sentence “Time...” is in response to a question from Hermione about how H&C knows Harry will turn dark and destroy her, not in regards to anything having to do with the conversation itself.
Also if you reread the passage in question, you’ll see several hints that indicate a long time passed for Hermione also, even though she didn’t remember it, e.g. *”Her hand was almost slipping on her wand, there was a sense of fatigue in her fingers like she’d been holding the wand for hours instead of minutes”, and ofcourse the fact that the rush of adrenaline at the beginning of the conversations corresponds to the rush of fear at H&C decloaking at the end.