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PRESENT GRANGER: They allowed me to visit Sirius Black once. I didn't stay long; as soon as I entered the house, I felt nervous from all the anti-suicide jinxes working on my mind... They used to say that releasing someone from Azkaban was a death sentence... {pause} And what of the other person, Pettigrew, the one I'd put in Azkaban? Every new thing I learned about the place made me feel sicker about what I'd done. As a rat, he had been free, harming no one. Now he was having every happy thought sucked out of him... I had thought I was doing the right thing by turning him over to the law. But if those who enforce the law would not provide justice, who would? {pause} My father used to say, "if you want a thing done right, do it yourself." {pause} So my impulse to enter Auror training became a plan, with an uncertain path but a clear destination. With the Time-Twister, I told myself, I would not need to delay long before I could begin... What would have been my third and fourth years became the rest of my stay at Hogwarts.

A single large image: Granger, surrounded by the spiral arms of the glowing Time-Twister, much like on [TW: gore] page 45. Granger is performing many tasks at once – ze is reading a book, writing on a parchment with one hand, holding zir wand in the other hand and using it to levitate the book and parchment, conjuring a fire to boil a potion that is overseen by Professor Snape, and transfiguring a pincushion into a hedgehog for Professor McGonagall.

PRESENT GRANGER: How much damage did I do, I wonder? Ever since the research came out, I have been plagued with thoughts of all the hours I took... Hours to study, when I could have worked harder in the time I had... Hours to rest – did I really need that rest more than the fabric of time needed to be whole? I was haunted by the story of the investigator who had picked up a shard of Voldemort's destroyed Time-Twister, and reappeared four years later... minus a few limbs, which waited six years instead...

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One thing that never made it onto a page is the reason for the Time-Twister's clockwise spiral.

The Time-Twister has a tiny hourglass in the middle of the spiral (which has occasionally been visible, but is usually too small to see in the pictures). To activate it, you twist the hourglass in a counterclockwise direction. So the line is, “Whenever you try to turn back time, you only wind it tighter”.

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