Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6252544-20160213233306/@comment-26159109-20160214063531

The time turner was set up in the entire novel, Hermione's secret talk, appearing and disappearing in classes. It wasn't something that was suddenly dropped on the reader like some duex ex machina. It had build up and it had pay off. If you didn't pay attention Harry and Hermione didn't really change anything. Everything they did when they turned back in time happened in the original timeline and it was explained that they can't use it to change the past and it is really dangerous, it was given to Hermione bacause she was responsible.

Yes, JK rowilng used magic for plot, but not to make everything easy, and the magic build itself everytime and most importantly it remained consistent unlike OUAT where magic is dropped suddenly  unexplained to solve everything cause the episode is over. Sorry, you can't downgrade Rowling's writing to the level of A&E's.