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Why Couldn't a Time Turner Have been Used to Stop Voldemort?
With the use of a time turner, that opens a whole "Pandora's Box" of possibilities. While the use of one can be problematical, when the Ministry of Magic found out how dangerous Voldemort was, why ...
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How much older was Hermione after her third year at Hogwarts?
In her third year at Hogwarts, Hermione is given a time-turner so she can take more classes. Several of her classes are concurrent to each other, so she attends one class (for 1-2 hours) goes back in ...
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Why was the time turner never used again?
It seems like it would be a very helpful device.
Why was it never used again, regardless of the purpose?
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Are there non-legal consequences for wizards that meddle with time?
I'm not sure how much documentation there is on time in the HP universe, but time would obviously be an incredibly strong weapon to Voldemort, so I'm wondering why he didn't just rewind time and fix ...
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Were Time Turners Omni-Directional?
It's been a while since I read the books, so forgive me if this was explicitly stated in bold text with rainbow accents, but:
Were the time turners in Harry Potter able to move a user forward in time?...
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In the third Harry Potter movie, why did they save Buckbeak if he is already alive?
Why did they go back in time to save Buckbeak if their future selves already saved Buckbeak?
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Why didn't Hermione use the Time-Turner to sleep more?
Hermione has the Time-Turner in Prisoner of Azkaban and uses it all year to take extra classes. Many times in the book she's exhausted and barely managing all of her studies.
What I never understood ...
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Why didn't Snape think of the Time-Turner?
During Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry and Hermione use the Time-Turner to save Buckbean and Sirius. Snape suspects Harry was involved in Sirius’s disappearance. To calm Snape, Dumbledore points out that ...
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How is Harry able to cast the Patronus to save himself & Sirius?
When we read about the Dementor attack down by the lake in Prisoner of Azkaban, we experience the situation twice. The use of the time turner affects both as both Harry's are present in both ...
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How does Time travel work in Harry Potter universe?
In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban the logic behind time turner travel seems to obey a Stable Time Loop or Causal Loop, where you fulfill what has already happened.
However in Harry Potter ...
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Why did nobody else need a Time Turner?
In The Prisoner of Azkaban, Hermione forgets to go to Charms after going to whatever other class she has that day--Muggle Studies, Runes, or maybe Arithmancy. Whatever class it is that is always the ...
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Time Turner paradox
Its clear from the HP books that more than one time turner existed. What would have happened (before the Order of the Phoenix) if two persons at the same time use two time turners to change the past?
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Why didn't Voldemort try to get a Time-Turner? [duplicate]
This is the opposite of a great question. Instead of asking why Time-Turners weren't used to destroy Voldemort, I want to know ...
Why didn't Voldemort try to get a Time-Turner?
He and his Death ...
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What if I wanted to travel back less than an hour?
Time turners are a very simple form of time travel. All you need to do is turn the turner some number of turns, which corresponds to the number of hours back you want to go. For example, Hermione ...
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