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The Harry Potter books are filled with magical objects: wands and brooms, Portkeys and portraits, potions and plants, Vanishing Cabinets, the Marauder’s Map, Dumbledore’s Deluminator, and Hagrid’s Mokeskin pouch. Each book presents magical objects that are central not only to the plot, but also to the symbolic meanings of that book. Many of these objects involve questions of time: relationships to time, how time works, what it means, and above all how it can or cannot be recovered, predicted, or controlled.
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© 2010 Shira Wolosky
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Wolosky, S. (2010). The Turns of Time: Memory, Prediction, Prophecy. In: The Riddles of Harry Potter. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230115576_4
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