Hmm. It seems highly likely that the troll was timeturned back six hours itself in order to prevent people using time turning against it—given the amount of prep work that went into this (sabotaging Hermoine’s kit, lifting the map, making her miss that meal. sun proofing it...) it would be a major oversight to not do that. Of course, that limits the suspect pool to people who know about time turning. From our perspective, all relevant suspects do, but in universe, this probably does rule out people. For example, if means Lucius may in fact know that it was not one of his minions getting overly ambitious.
Because you cannot send information back further than that. So if the troll was sent from six hours forward, you cannot tell people further back about it. Uhm. I just realized this cannot be a strict prohibition, or you could only have one time turner per six light hour radius volume.. Okay, so all that accomplishes is that you cannot send anyone back that knows about the troll...Yanking in some random member of the order of the pheonix and telling them to swap out harrys first aid kit, without being spotted, might still work.
That’s information, and it is in some significant sense information about the troll. The only people with the ability to do that would be people without enough information to know it’s a good idea.
I wonder whether you could explain the way of it to them and then obliviate them so that they only remember the decision to do it but not the why.
Or perhaps you could have someone who agreed to follow your orders without knowing why, specifically for the purpose of doing things with time-turners, rotate the duty through your inner circle so you don’t end up with a drone.
Hmm. It seems highly likely that the troll was timeturned back six hours itself in order to prevent people using time turning against it—given the amount of prep work that went into this (sabotaging Hermoine’s kit, lifting the map, making her miss that meal. sun proofing it...) it would be a major oversight to not do that. Of course, that limits the suspect pool to people who know about time turning. From our perspective, all relevant suspects do, but in universe, this probably does rule out people. For example, if means Lucius may in fact know that it was not one of his minions getting overly ambitious.
How would moving the troll back in time six hours prevent people from going back six hours to kill it in the past?
Because you cannot send information back further than that. So if the troll was sent from six hours forward, you cannot tell people further back about it. Uhm. I just realized this cannot be a strict prohibition, or you could only have one time turner per six light hour radius volume.. Okay, so all that accomplishes is that you cannot send anyone back that knows about the troll...Yanking in some random member of the order of the pheonix and telling them to swap out harrys first aid kit, without being spotted, might still work.
That’s information, and it is in some significant sense information about the troll. The only people with the ability to do that would be people without enough information to know it’s a good idea.
I wonder whether you could explain the way of it to them and then obliviate them so that they only remember the decision to do it but not the why.
Or perhaps you could have someone who agreed to follow your orders without knowing why, specifically for the purpose of doing things with time-turners, rotate the duty through your inner circle so you don’t end up with a drone.