In 2004, the long-awaited third film about the adventures of the young wizard Harry Potter and his friends was released. This part of the famous epic introduced the audience, who had not previously read books about the boy the wizard, with terrible and ruthless creatures devouring all the good and bright feelings of people, leaving in return only melancholy and hopelessness. No less than these monsters were impressed by the audience and the magic object first appeared in this part called the handwheel of time.
What is this magic device
Time-turner, also called a time-turn, or a handwheel of time, is a magic device that allows its owner to return to the recent past. These devices look like a small pendant on a gold chain with a tiny hourglass mounted on a rotating rod.
With it, only someone who wears this device on his neck can go back several hours (one revolution - one hour). If you put a chain of a flywheel of time on several people at the same time, they can all also return to the past. The facets of this artifact are decorated with an inscription that reads: “I will measure every moment and hour, but the sun has not yet been able to overtake. My price and strength, everything for you, so that you can do everything on time. ”
Using time clock has a number of caveats. The person using it should not meet with himself in the past, otherwise the consequences can be the most unpredictable. Despite its power, this device cannot return the life of a killed person, but only gives a chance to the user of the flywheel to prevent death. In addition, not all events in the past can be changed with impunity, so you need to carefully weigh all your actions, otherwise a catastrophe can occur. Thanks to the flywheel of time, you can move to the past for no more than five hours. What this restriction is connected with is not clear, however, there are cases in history when people moving to the past for a longer period changed the matter of time in a terrible way, aged for many years in just a couple of hours, and also caused death in the future.
How and when did the time flywheel appear in the world of Harry Potter
The origin of this device is shrouded in mystery. Most likely, the coup was created in ancient times by powerful wizards, but there is no data about this. Almost all such devices are closely monitored by the Department of Secrets of the Ministry of Magic. In the third film and the book about Potter, the best friend of Harry, the excellent student of Hermione, becomes the owner of a flywheel the size of a pendant. She manages to get it from the dean of her faculty in order to be able to attend classes that are scheduled at the same time. Since a diligent girl in the first two years of study was able to establish herself as a responsible person, she was entrusted with such a dangerous artifact. Being extremely cautious, the student managed to hide her time travels even from her closest friends, until she received permission from the director of the sorcerer's school to use the handwheel of time to save godfather Harry from certain death.
Later, the girl returned the device to the school management.
The next time, the time flywheel appears in the fifth part of the epic, when a detachment of students from the school of magic enters the Department of Mysteries in order to interfere with the plans of the main villain of the whole epic. In one of the rooms, teenagers discover many huge turns, significantly exceeding Hermione’s flywheel. It is quite possible that these devices are capable of sending people to the more distant past, unfortunately, this topic does not find further development, since due to the battle that took place in the department, all devices are destroyed and are not mentioned further. the audience was not shown this episode, so people who did not read the book had a lot of questions about this magic device.
Joan Rowling on the flywheel of time
The popular British writer Joan Rowling, who presented the whole world with a story about a wizard boy who was left an orphan, in many interviews told fans of her work that she thought about this beloved artifact. So, the writer noted that she does not regret that she “gave” such a wonderful device to her heroes, although in the future she had problems with it. After the success of the third book, she realized that in the next parts of the cycle she needed to somehow explain to readers why Harry and his friends, knowing about the magic device, did not dare to use it to prevent the death of the same godfather Harry or the director of the school of wizards.
Therefore, Joan “destroyed” all the flywheels in the Department of Mysteries and described what catastrophic consequences in the past have already led to thoughtless games over time.
Flywheel shaped pendants
Along with the release of epic books and films, many fans of this story often hosted entire fan conferences and reconstructed the events of books and films. It has also become fashionable to dress up as epic heroes for holidays and carnivals. So, costume shops and online stores were filled with all kinds of costumes, magic wands and other attributes of the fairy world. The jewelry described in books or appearing in films gained immense popularity.
So pendants with symbols of the deathly hallows, the logo of all four faculties of the school of magic, a card of looters and a ticket to platform 9 and ¾ began to be acquired not only by avid fans, but simply by lovers of original jewelry. But one of the most popular jewelry was a pendant in the form of a flywheel of time.
Manufacturers supplemented it with their own details, made it from different metals, and also filled different types of sand from beige to pink. In addition to pendants, earrings and bracelets decorated with tiny timepieces were produced and still are produced.
DIY flywheel
The popularity among fans of this artifact is so high that many tried to recreate this device with their own hands. It is worth noting that in most cases they do not copy the device described by Rowling in the book, but its embodiment in the film version.
So, the elements were crocheted, embroidered and made of wire and beads.
The most common home-made time handwheel is quite simple. Two medium-sized beads are worn on a thin wire along with three rings of different diameters. Having carefully fixed everything, the design is painted from a spray can with golden paint, and a pretty good copy of the time is obtained.
Along with such magical items that conquered the hearts of epic fans, such as a map of looters, magic wands, an invisibility cloak and others, the flywheel of time gained the most popularity. Harry Potter, because of the complex storyline, was not able to take full advantage of all the advantages of this artifact. But his fans liked this device so much that many of them even made tattoos with a twist. Perhaps the secret of the popularity of the time flywheel is not only in a thoughtful and elegant design, but also in the fact that having put on such a medallion, every person at least for a moment begins to believe in a fairy tale.