Time Turner Mania!
Summary: At the end of third year Harry and Ron decide to replace Hermione's time turner with a dud, before she gives it back to Professor McGonagall and keep the real time turner in case of emergencies (themselves). Read to find out more!
Maliaphire: Basically I love time travel and hate it when characters I like in stories die, so this is about how they get the time turner and what they use it for, please review and tell me what you think flames welcome.
"So Harry, what do you think of my plan? Bloody brilliant, isn't it?" Ron excitedly whispered. "We transfigure a reel of thread or something similar, to look like a time turner and swap it for the real one, then we can keep it for ourselves in case we need to use one again!"
"I don't know Ron," Harry replied. "It could all go horribly wrong, it's illegal to use a time turner to intentionally change history, isn't it? We could end up changing history by accident in a way we didn't intend."
"We'd be really careful," Ron said pleadingly "come on, I can't do this on my own and we won't tell Hermione until after she has given the dud to Professor McGonagall, so that she can't make us give it back without getting us or herself in trouble!"
"Fine!" Harry answered grudgingly, "so long as we're careful."
Later that night when everyone else had gone to bed, they planned exactly what they were going to do in the Gryffindor common room. They decided that although a reel of thread would be ok, an egg timer would be even easier to transfigure, and that the best place to find one would be the kitchens, (I know house elves and wizards probably don't use egg timers but for the purposes of this story they do) the location of which they would find out from Fred and George, There was of course the final problem of how they would make the switch without Hermione knowing, They discussed it and both agreed the best option would be to slip it into the last drink she had before bed, so she would fall asleep before leaving the common room, and perform the swap before Hermione woke up again and went to her dormitory.
"Guess that's nearly everything decided," Ron yawned
"Yeah we'd better go to bed now before we fall asleep in the common room" Harry decided. "Good night."