Time Turning... the other way?

[Snuffles]

Not sure if this is the right one to put this thread in..
Anyway :cool:
here's one of my.. well, not quite a theory, but brainstorming. *gets out nerdy glasses*

In PoA, we have seen the dramatic effects of time-turning. It might even be used to save lives. So, in doing that, I think many of the HP fans have asked JKR that why couldn't the Ministry or even the DE turn the time back enough to save or kill certain people. I think JKR said that there would be no point of the books or something.

Getting to my point. Why not the other way? Not back to the past, but to the future? Wait, wait hear me out. ;) Prophecy.. Seeing.. Divination.. what are all those? looking beyond the time into the future, right? Without the Seers, can't the Ministy or the DE have no knowledge of what would come up in the future whatsoever? Which leaves me wondering: the time-turner in the Department of Mysteries.. what were those for, anyway?

[Fortescue]

The Time-Turners in the Department of Mysteries were there for both study and regulation. They didn't want everyone to have access to them so they were not abused. It doesn't matter though as in OotP, the Ministries entire collection of Time-Turners were destroyed by Harry and company, therefore, unless someone pocketed one we don't know about, or someone outside the Ministry has a bootleg Time-Turner, they shouldn't be an issue.

As for the issue of going into the future as apposed to the past - I don't think that would make a difference. Either way, it would be considered "meddling with time," if you were to go into the future and change something that was destined to happen.

[Alz]

The question of seeing the future often gathers debate ...
From my point of view - this is how I see it ...

Things that have happened in the past stand testiment - as in they have occured.
Someone with the ability can go back and meddle in time - and thus change events ... but the thing is time will reflect they happened ..
With the future - it isnt as easy ...
Since the future is yet to happen - and any little choice you make effects it - there seems no point in meddling with it ...
The future is - and maybe to coin a phrase here ... "so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed" - you may predict the future - but change it, I dont think so - because just the smallest change will change the path of the future ...

[Haley's Comet]

I agree with Blaise. We learn from the past, because the past has happened.
It was real. The future, doesn't exist as such. The future is now and events, as Blaise has said, has yet to happen. You cannot go forward into time, or a period that does not exist.

"I'm your huckleberry."

[Hermione]

I think it would be hard to change the future, you wouldn't know what to alter since it is all new. The advantage to changing the past is you are familiar with it. In it future everything is new.

Either way, it would be considered "meddling with time," if you were to go into the future and change something that was destined to happen.
But JKR has already said it is our choices that controll our destiny not predictions or events that are out of our controll. Why would she debunk Divination so thoroughly and show the only ones who believe in it as silly, and a bit unpredictable?