The Most Controversial Harry Potter Plot Device Reddit Still Talks About

Summary:

• The Harry Potter fandom seems to never end the discussions regarding the Time-Turner, a magical device, introduced in the Prisoner of Azkaban.
• There are some complaints questioning the writing and featuring this plot’s arc, which seemingly found redemption in the later franchise’s explanations.

The Harry Potter franchise is built so well it’s hard to find severe holes in the plot of both movies and book, however, there are some imperfections which raise the fandom’s questions even 20 years later. In particular, there is one of the magical objects of the Wizarding World, which remains the most debatable one - the Time-Turner.

Being a magical pendant that allows turn back time and alter the past, it helps Hermione to attend more classes than she is physically capable of. It turns out that it’s given to her by Headmaster Dumbledore in the timeline of the third movie, the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Throughout the story, Harry learns about Hermione’s exploitation of this device, and they eventually end up saving Sirius Black and Buckbeak the Hippogriff from execution and themselves from the wolfed-out Professor Lupin and relentless Dementors.

Thus, given the Time-Turner as a tool for saving lives, one obvious question comes to mind: why don't they use it for preventing other tragedies in the course of the war against Lord Voldermort or for saving Harry’s parents many years earlier?

Besides, it seems dubious that Dumbledore borrows Hermione such a powerful item, even though she’s the cleverest self-aware young wizard, as it might have been stolen by the Death Eaters and other rivals of the good and used as a dangerous weapon.

Time-Turner Plot Hole, Explained by Rowling

Nevertheless, J.K. Rowling, understanding that her inclusion of the issue of time traveling was not so smooth, gives some closure to this theme. It was later explained in the books that it was impossible to go back in time for more than a few hours.

Moreover, the book author, as well as the movies’ screenwriters, went even further to shut down the time-turners’ controversy. In the fifth chapter of the franchise, the Order of the Phoenix, the finale features the battle between Dumbledore’s army and Voldemort’s Death-Eaters in the Department of Mysteries. During the confrontation many magical artifacts are destroyed, including all the time-turners.

Despite the assumption that there might have been some of the devices left in somebody’s property and so on, it may be considered quite a proper conclusion to this topic, which can satisfy if not all, but at least the most part of the Harry Potter fans.

Revise this part of the franchise to look at the time-turners from a different angle, as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is available on Netflix , Prime and HBO Max .