How Much Did Hermione AGE in Third Year? - Harry Potter Theory

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Welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory. In this video, we’re going to be discussing Hermione Granger, The Time Turner, and the absurd amount of coursework that she was taking on in her third year. But more specifically- we will be tackling the question- did it AGE her? Time travel is not to be toyed with so-were there any lasting detrimental effects?

A time turner is a magical device manufactured by the department of mysteries that is used for time travel. Given the potential usefulness of a time turner, which allows for TIME TRAVEL, one might expect that this technology would have been used more in the fight against evil- but in reality it was mainly used by Hermione so that she could take on MORE coursework.

In the 1993 school year, Mcgonagall gifts a time-turner to Hermione so that she is able to attend additional classes.

"Hermione's immense workload finally seemed to be getting to her. Every night, without fail, Hermione was to be seen in a corner of the common room, several tables spread with books, Arithmancy charts, rune dictionaries, diagrams of Muggles lifting heavy objects, and file upon file of extensive notes; she barely spoke to anybody and snapped when she was interrupted."
—Hermione's workload due to her Ministry Time-Turner

So, a time-turner allows you to go back in time- but, you may be asking-what are the long term implications of time travel? Using a device that allows you to relive moments in the past and then jump back right to the future? The answer to this is of course that your ‘present’ self would have aged-depending on how long you went back in to the past.

If you went 5 years back in time and stayed there for 6 months, when you returned to the present you would be 6 months older than you were before, but everyone else would have remained the same age. This means that for every minute someone in the present aged, Hermione’s time travelling self would age 2 minutes. So, given that Hermione uses a time turner for a good portion of the school year- how much did he she actually age?

First of all, it’s never explicitly stated how many courses she doubles up on- and we have no information about how long they were or how long the terms were, so all we can do is estimate based on what we DO know.

In her third year, there were 12 possible classes that she could have been taking (7 core, 5 elective). Given Hermione’s nature and the fact that she was in possession of a time travelling device, let’s assume that she took all of them.

However, it’s revealed that Hermione later drops two classes - Divination and Muggle studies. She dropped Divination because she was NOT a fan, and she dropped Muggle Studies because she was a muggle born, and didn’t really get anything out of the class. However, she did attend these classes for a portion of the year- which means that she did still age quite a bit.

We know that the Hogwarts school year begins in September, and ends at the last week of June. There are also approximately two two-week holidays that occur during the school year, which we need to factor in to this equation.

So the Hogwarts school year starts on 1 September and ends at the last week of June, with two approximately two-week holidays (one in winter for Christmas and one in early spring for Easter) during that time. September to July is approximately 43 weeks of classes- however, if we deduct the 2 two-week stints of vacation time, then that leaves us with 39 weeks of classes in total.

Hogwarts courses are generally 90 minutes, however, students have the option to double-up on these courses if they so desire- making them 180 minutes in total, or three hours.

Hermione’s REGULAR 10 course schedule (without the addition of Divination and Muggle Studies), would put her at 2 courses a day at 3 hours each. This would mean that she spent approximately 30 hours per week in class. And this was doable for Hermione, but what wasn’t doable was trying to incorporate ADDITIONAL classes in to this already heavy schedule.
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