These instances followed Rowling's stance on self-fulfilling prophecies. With the established Harry Potter time travel rules, Harry and his friends never had the option of traveling back in the past to kill Voldemort. If they were to do so, Voldemort would already be dead in the present timeline.

Why didn't they use the Time-Turner?

Time-turners were only used in "Prisoner of Azkaban" to save Sirius, raising questions about their potential and limitations. J.K. Rowling addressed the time-turner plot holes by introducing limitations on time travel and ultimately destroying all time-turners.

Why didn't they use a Time-Turner to save Harry's parents?

Why the Time Turner Couldn't Have Saved Harry's Parents | Fandom. The time turner couldn't have been used to save Harry's parents because it was too far back in time; you cannot go back more than five hits without there being very bad consequences. They saved Buckbeak because he was about to die three hours before.

Why not use Time-Turner to kill Voldemort on Reddit?

If you go back and change the past, then you change everything that happened as a result, so you no longer have the same future, either. TL;DR: Doing so would have caused a deviation of the timeline, and because Voldemort killed Harry's parents, we do not exist in the timeline where he was killed.

Why didn't Harry use the Time-Turner to save Dumbledore?

IIRC, you can only use the time-turner to go back 5 hours or thereabouts. Any more than that could seriously harm whoever is using the time turner.

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Why would McGonagall give Hermione a Time-Turner?

Hermione Granger received one from Professor McGonagall in 1993, so that she could attend more classes in her third year than time would allow.

Why did McGonagall trust Hermione with the Time-Turner?

Perhaps McGonagall saw Hermione's potential and knew that someone like her could show that the Time-Turner had applications for students looking to take on extra credit at school or, in the case of Prisoner of Azkaban's finale, save innocent people from evil.

Why didn t Hermione use the time-turner to save Sirius?

It is not easy to get hand of a time-turner and use it at your own will; it takes special permission from Ministry. At the end of year, Hermione had to return the time-tuner back to Ministry. It was not her own property.

Why didn t Dumbledore use the time-turner in Prisoner of Azkaban?

Why didn't Dumbledore use the Time-Turner to go back and save Harry's parents? Because it's too dangerous to go further back than a few hours. Why didn't anyone use the Time-Turner to save the lives lost in the final Battle of Hogwarts? Because by that point, no more Time-Turners were left in existence.

Why did no one use the killing curse on Voldemort?

The Unforgivable Curses are extremely taboo and illegal in the wizarding world, and it's confirmed that not every wizard could cast them. This alone would've made it very unlikely that anyone fighting against Voldemort would use the curse, since good evil paradigm and all that.

Is Hermione older because of the Time-Turner?

Even if September 1 is the cutoff, we're told Hermione's birthday is September 19, after Hogwarts is already in session. So she must have been born in 1979, not 1980 like Ron and Harry. Well, Hermione is older than most of her yearmates, even without the Time-Turner.

Who knew Hermione had the Time-Turner?

"It's called a Time-Turner," Hermione whispered, "and I got it from Professor McGonagall on our first day back. I've been using it all year to get to all my lessons. Professor McGonagall made me swear I wouldn't tell anyone. She had to write all sorts of letters to the Ministry of Magic so I could have one.

Why didn't Hermione save Dobby?

Honestly, Hermione knew Dobby was a lost case... nothing could have revived Dobby after the attack or she would have definitely helped Harry with Dobby considering she was the girl who started S.P.E.W(Society for the Elfish welfare) and fought for elf rights. There was nothing to be done at that point.

What happened to Hermione's Time-Turner?

Hermione found her third year stressful with the extra class load, and therefore decided to drop Divination, which she despised, and Muggle Studies, which she did not find very useful, given that she was a Muggle-born. This allowed her to have a normal schedule once again, and she returned her Time-Turner.

What happens to wizards who meddle with time?

Dumbledore first stresses the importance of Hermione and Harry being unseen, and then later Hermione tells us that witches and wizards who have meddled with time carelessly have caused terrible damage, sometimes even killing their past or future selves and thereby completely destroying the semblance of logic within ...

Did Hagrid spend time in Azkaban?

Imprisonment in Azkaban

In 1993 Hagrid was sent to the wizarding prison, Azkaban, when the Chamber of Secrets was re-opened. It was assumed he was the one who reopened the Chamber because his expulsion from Hogwarts was for the same occurrence.

Was Buckbeak ever killed?

To defend Buckbeak, Hermione helped Hagrid work up a defense for him, and it didn't work. When the day came for Buckbeak to be executed, Harry, Ron, and Hermione went down to his cabin, and tried to comfort Hagrid. When they were walking back to the school, they heard an axe thud, and they knew they killed him.

How many turns did Hermione and Harry turn the Time-Turner to go back in time in order to save Sirius?

She turned the small hourglass on the end of the chain three times. Ending up in a broom closet off the Entrance Hall, Hermione revealed to Harry that they had just gone back in time three hours.

Did Dumbledore know Sirius was innocent?

Dumbledore's lack of belief that Sirius is innocent is also suspect. Sirius was a member of the Order of the Phoenix which fought against Death Eaters, but Sirius also was as close to James as a brother, the Potters even took him in when he ran away from home.

Why did Azkaban not affect Sirius?

The prolonged misery of being exposed to dementors kept the prisoners locked within their own minds, so Sirius lost the ability to transform. However, Sirius explained that the knowledge of his innocence kept him sane in a way most of Azkaban's prisoners were not.

Where did Sirius go with Buckbeak?

Sirius kept Buckbeak with him while on the run during the 1994–1995 school year, and later kept him in Walburga Black's bedroom while in hiding at 12 Grimmauld Place. After Sirius's death, Buckbeak came to be owned by Harry Potter through Sirius's will, though Harry allowed him to live with Hagrid.

Why didn t McGonagall marry?

Thinking about her future, she realised that wedding a Muggle who didn't know that she was a witch would mean Minerva would follow her mother's footsteps and live unhappily with her wand locked away, shredding all of her ambitions.

Why did McGonagall lock up Slytherin?

Other than Pansy Parkinson with absolute zero room-reading skills and Professor McGonagall sending all the Slytherins to the dungeons, from what I understand McGonagall literally had them locked up in the dungeons cells than give them a choice whenever to fight against Voldemort or remain in the common room, because ...

Are time turners illegal?

After the Mintumble incident, the Department of Mysteries terminated such experiments, and Ministry of Magic laws dramatically restricted the use of time-turners.