Among the confiscated magazines, it was not hard to find advertisements for travel.
Besides beautiful, enticing photographs of scenery, these advertisements attracted readers with discounted prices and packages. As human transportation continued to advance, traveling to distant places was no longer as difficult or adventurous as it had once been. You could take a comfortable luxury liner, one even larger than the Titanic of old, with plenty of entertainment facilities aboard, like a piece of land floating on the sea.
But time travel did not advertise itself. On the contrary, it came with layer upon layer of cumbersome restrictions. Compared with those who had always lived in the Wizarding World, young wizards like Ben Cooper, who came from the Muggle world, found it easier to apply for a Time-Turner because they would not use it to "undo" anything.
Even if they did not know where Voldemort had lived as a child, someone could go back to the day of the crime and stop Death Eaters or someone else from destroying their family.
Pomona did not know how many times Ben Cooper had used his Time-Turner, but he seemed to have forgotten it existed. Snape had even considered using Veritaserum to see whether he had truly forgotten.
It was nearly impossible for the Slytherin Head of House to ask a Gryffindor to investigate with a Time-Turner, or to borrow his Time-Turner. Pomona guessed he would tell Minerva and Dumbledore. Given their style, they would probably set another trap for Ben Cooper to jump into... no, they should be designing reasonable setbacks for him to overcome. Like an actor handed a script without knowing the plot, forced to improvise everything.
All Under Heaven had long suffered under Émilie. Many Gryffindor girls who joined her clique had done so only because they feared