time turner
Hours-reversing magical device
A time turner is a fictional device from the Harry Potter series that allows the wearer to travel backward in time.
The object resembles a small hourglass on a chain; each rotation sends the user back one hour.
The term has escaped its fictional origins to describe any imagined means of revisiting the past: I wish I had a time turner to redo that interview.
- Harry PotterFictional adolescent sorcerer
- HermioneWoman's name from antiquity
- third yearEleventh grader's position
- going backMoving in reverse direction
- spinRapid rotation around axis
chain · necklace · loop · paradox · grandfather paradox · past · future · magic · sand · golden · reverse · hours · artifact · Prisoner of Azkaban · temporal · clockwork · secret · pendant
time turnerpoint of no return
Threshold beyond which reversal impossible
fait accompli · sealed fate · arrow of time · death · entropy
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