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Harry Potter Time Travel fic on Wattpad where Harry and Hermione travel back in time after losing the war
I read this fic a while ago and for the life of me I can’t find it again on Wattpad. I will admit my memory is hazy but I’ll include everything I can remember about it.
It starts with Harry and ...
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Why did Dumbledore pretend to not understand post-time-travel Harry and Hermione?
Harry and Hermione excitedly reported to Dumbledore that they had been successful (saving Sirius, e.g.) during their time-traveling adventure in The Prisoner of Azkaban. In the movie, this occurs ...
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Even if he didn't want to use them, why didn't Voldemort steal all of the Time Turners?
This question covers why he wouldn't want to steal one and use it, but that doesn't explain why he wouldn't want to steal them all anyway. Regardless of if you plan on using it, simultaneously gaining ...
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Looking for HP fanfic. HG birthday. Orb from Molly. HG & HP to alternate past. Tapestry. HP's grandparents
I'm looking for a Harry Potter fanfic I probably read at AO3, for 6-12 months ago. Was then a WIP. I may be mixing together two stories...
It's Hermiones (20th?) birthday and they're celebrating. ...
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Harry Potter fanfic where Harry time travels and is de-aged to 10, the same age as James
I can’t find this fanfic I read a couple years ago. I remember the following details:
Harry goes back in time and is de-aged to 10 and is the same age as James
He claims he is the son of Charlus ...
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Are there any actual examples of "awful things happening to wizards who meddle with time" in the book? [duplicate]
In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Hermione mentions:
Awful things happen to wizards who meddle with time.
Now, I can imagine what could go wrong logically, for example, their past self ...
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Can a character come to exist or be conceived out of time travel? [closed]
In Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the character Delphini is introduced as being the love child of Voldermort and Bellatrix Lastrange.
The wiki cites and there are also other well-researched ...
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Why new Time Turners were not produced when needed?
By the time of the Cursed Child, time turners
but we discover that
It's then made pretty clear that once the time turners are
Why couldn't someone just make more? I mean, the already existing ones ...
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Can you “skip” back to the present when using a Time-Turner?
I was wondering, should a wizard use a Time-turner to go far into the past, if he manages to change what needed to have been changed, can he avoid having to live through the rest of the time given to ...
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How did Hermione go to classes with the Time-Turner if she couldn’t be seen?
If no one is supposed to see you when you use the Time-Turner, how did Hermione go to classes then? She obviously didn’t hide anywhere because Ron asked other students if she was in all classes, and ...
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What would happen if you used a time-turner inside the pensieve?
Since the Pensieve is a 'bubble-of-reality' what would happen if you used a time-turner in a memory? (Pre-Cursed Child time-turners - say five minutes to an hour)
Would you go back in time in the real ...
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How much older is Hermione Granger than she should be? [duplicate]
During J. K. Rowling's third Harry Potter book, The Prizoner of Azkaban, Hermione Granger makes extensive use of a Time Turner to be able to attend all of her classes. For this she travels back in ...
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Why was Hermione always late when she used the Time Turner?
There are multiple scenes in the PoA movie where Harry and Ron are startled by Hermione "appearing from nowhere" to chime in during a lesson. They would ask her where she came from, and she never gave ...
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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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Did Harry, Hermione and Ron see Buckbeak die?
My recollection is that, in the Prisoner of Azkaban movie, Harry, Hermione, and Ron see Buckbeak being executed, before
However, this didn't happen in the book, and the idea that they saw something ...
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Is Dumbledore Ron in the future?
They both love Bertie Botts, they both have long fingers, share a left-leg injury, like Chocolate Frog Cards, and have naturally red hair.
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Why didn't Harry use a Time-Turner to save Sirius Black's life the second time? [duplicate]
In "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" Harry and Hermione saved two lives (Sirius and Buckbeak). And in "The Order of Phoenix" Sirius died by Harry's fault. Why didn't Harry use The Time-Turner ...
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How can Albus and Scorpius forget the past in alternate timelines and retain memories from original timeline?
In Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play, when you change past, time travellers aren't immune to changes. For example, when Harry got killed in the past, the time traveller Albus also got kicked out ...
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Doesn't saving Sirius and Buckbeak violate the Time Turner rules?
A generally accepted rule when it comes to Time, is that in no way should one mess too bad with the timeline. A fact, that was indeed considered to be true even in the Harry Potter universe.
But, ...
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What's the first noticeable instance of Hermione showing the negative effects due to her timeturner use in the third year?
We know that through the entire year Hermione is using the time turner to attend multiple classes at the same time.
Do we have a definitive moment when we can see the effects of this impacting her ...
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Why didn't Lucius Malfoy use this item earlier in the novel series?
We learn in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child that apparently:
So why did Draco spend 30 chapters in Book 6 fixing a cabinet when Lucius could have given it to Voldemort in one chapter in Book 4?
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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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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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Why did Harry and Hermione arrive in the Entrance Hall after having used the Time-Turner in the hospital wing?
In The Prisoner of Azkaban, after the events in the Shrieking Shack, Harry, Ron and Hermione are in the hospital wing. Dumbledore suggests they (Hermione & Harry) use the Time Turner to save more ...
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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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Do time turners require magical ability?
As I said in this question, time turners are very simple: just turn the hourglass, and poof! You're back in time. But does it require magic? Could a Muggle do this?
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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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HP fanfic about two girls who went back in time
I'm trying to find a Harry Potter fanfic where two girls (I think one was Hermione, the other might have been Ginny or Luna, not sure) went back in time from sometime during Hogwarts to their younger ...
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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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Is there a way to bypass the paradox system with a Time Turner in Harry Potter?
Is it possible to not create a paradox by using a Time Turner to stop someone (e.g Voldemort) from the past?
For example, a theory could be that somebody would go back in time by 3 hours, poison ...
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Did Hermione shorten her life expectancy using the time turner? [duplicate]
When Hermione uses the Time-Turner she is making her 24 hour day even longer by going back into the past a few hours.
Let's say her time spent in the past has added up to one year (I know it couldn't ...
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Time Turner Problem - See Yourself
There is a question I wanted to ask some time ago and I'm not quite sure it hasn't been answered already. In fact if so, I did not find anything.
At the moment I do not have the books with me, but I ...
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Were time-turners available during the first wizarding war?
It has been established that time-turners are wizard-made.
We also know that time-turners were not available during the second wizarding war because they were all destroyed during the events of Order ...
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How difficult was it to apply for time-turners?
As far as we know from the books (I haven't been on Pottermore or seen any of JKR's interviews) Hermione is the only witch or wizard to have legally used a time-turner.
So how does the application ...
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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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Why didn't they use the invisibility cloak while on time travel?
In The Prisoner of Azkaban movie Harry and Hermione used Time-Turner to save Sirius. After advising them to use Time-Turner Dumbledore remind them "you must not be seen". If it was a vital law to use ...
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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 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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What Were Time Turners Used For?
While time turners were guarded by the Ministry of Magic, it was still possible for a young student at Hogwarts to get permission to use one, indicating that while they may be secret, they aren't so ...
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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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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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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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Trouble of time travel in Harry Potter?
What would happen when Harry and Hermione would meet other Harry and Hermione while using time travel clock? For example scene of execution of hippogriff in Prisoner of Azkaban.
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Can characters be brought back in the Potter-verse via time manipulation?
In "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", Hermione was able to go back in time to change present. Does this allow for the resurrection of any character? There's one character in particular that ...
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