A flywheel of time from the fairy world of Harry Potter

In 2004, the long-awaited third film about the adventures of the young wizard Harry Potter and his friends appeared on the screens. This part of the famous epic acquainted viewers who had not previously read books about the wizard boy, with terrible and ruthless creatures devouring all the good and bright feelings of people, leaving in return only sadness and hopelessness. No less than these monsters impressed viewers and first appeared in this part of the magical object called the flywheel of time.

What is this magic device?

Time-turner, also called a timepiece, or a flywheel of time, is a magical device that allows its owner to return to the recent past. This device looks like a small pendant on a gold chain with a tiny hourglass attached to a rotating rod. With his help to return a few hours ago (one turn - one hour) can only be the one who wears this device around his neck. If you put a chain of a flywheel of time on several people at the same time, they all can also return to the past. The edge of this artifact is adorned with an inscription stating: "I measure out every moment and hour, but I could not overtake the sun until I could. My price and strength, everything for you, so you can do everything on time. "

The use of the time-bar has a number of caveats. The person using it should not meet in the past with himself, otherwise the consequences can be the most unpredictable. Despite its power, this device can not return life to a dead person, but only provides a chance for the flywheel user to prevent death. In addition, not all events in the past can be changed with impunity, so you need to carefully weigh all of your actions, otherwise there may be a catastrophe. Thanks to the flywheel of time, you can move to the past for no more than five hours. What is the reason for this restriction is not clear, but there are cases in history where people moving to the past for a longer time 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 the flywheel of time appeared in the world of Harry Potter

The origin of this device is covered in mystery. Most likely, the time was created in ancient times by mighty wizards, but there is no data about it. Almost all such devices are under the careful control of the Department of Secrets of the Ministry of Magic. In the third film and a book about Potter, the owner of the flywheel of the size of the pendant is Harry's best friend, Hermione's excellent student. She manages to get it from the dean of her faculty to be able to attend classes that are on the schedule at the same time. Since the diligent girl in the first two years of her studies was able to prove herself as a responsible person, she was entrusted with such a dangerous artifact. Being extremely cautious, the student managed to hide her travels in time, even from the closest friends, until she got permission from the schoolmaster's director himself to use the flywheel of the time to save the godfather from true death. Later, the girl returned the device to the school's management.

Next time the flywheel of time appears in the fifth part of the epic, when a detachment of pupils of the school of magic penetrates into the Department of Secrets to interfere with the plans of the main villain of the whole epic. In one of the rooms the teenagers discover a lot of huge time-reversals, much larger than the size of the clock of Hermione's time. It is possible that these devices are able to send people to a more distant past, unfortunately, this topic does not find further development, because because of what happened in the battle department all the devices are destroyed and are not mentioned further. It should be noted that in the third part The audience was not shown this episode, so people who did not read the book had a lot of questions about this magical device.

JK Rowling on the flywheel of the time

The popular British writer Joan Rowling, who gave the whole world a story about a wizard boy who was left an orphan, told many fans of her work in many interviews that she thinks about this beloved artifact. So, the writer noted that she does not regret that she "gave" her heroes such a wonderful device, although in the future she had problems with it. After the success of the third book, she realized that in the following 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 school's director of wizards.

Therefore, Joan "destroyed" all the flywheels in the Department of Secrets and described to what disastrous consequences in the past already led thoughtless games over time.

Pendants in the form of a flywheel of time

Along with the release of books and epic films, many fans of this story often hosted whole fan conferences, and also reconstructed the events of books and films. Also fashionable began to dress up in heroes of the epic for the holidays and carnivals. So the costume shops and online stores filled with all sorts of costumes, magic wands and other attributes of a fairy-tale world. Adornments, described in books or appearing in films, became very popular. So the pendants with the symbols of death gifts, the logo of all four faculties of the school of magic, the marauders' card and the ticket for platform 9 and 3 began to be acquired not only by avid fans, but also by lovers of the original jewelry. But one of the most popular jewelry was a pendant in the form of a flywheel of the time. Manufacturers supplemented it with their own details, made it from different metals, and also poured various kinds of sand from beige to pink. In addition to the pendants, earrings and bracelets, decorated with tiny timepieces, were produced and still are produced.

Handwheel of the time with your own hands

The popularity among the fans of this artifact is so high that many people tried to recreate this device with their own hands. It is worth noting that in most cases, copying is not described by Rowling in the book device, and its embodiment in the film adaptation. So, the elements were crocheted, embroidered and made from wire and beads.

The most common self-made flywheel of the time is done quite simply. Two medium-sized beads are dressed on a thin wire together with three rings of different diameters. Carefully fixing everything, the design is painted from the can with golden paint, and a fairly good copy of the time turns out.

Along with such magical objects that conquered the hearts of epic heroes, like a marauders' map, magic wands, invisibility cloak and others, the flywheel of time acquired the greatest popularity. Harry Potter, because of the complex storyline, was not able to take advantage of all the advantages of this artifact. But his fans liked this device so much that many of them even did tattoos with a time. Perhaps the secret to the popularity of the flywheel of the time is not only in a thoughtful and elegant design, but also that, wearing such a medallion, every person at least for a moment begins to believe in a fairy tale.