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CHAPTER 80 SPOILERS BELOW
Well. We have five days to think of something. This seems to mean that Harry will think of something, and we have five days to guess what it may be. Presumably it will be something in one of the following categories:
I propose we start by making a list of everything in the courtroom:
What do we know about any of these people that Harry might use to sway the crowd?
Harry didn't hear Hermione's testimony. Therefore, he can go back in time and change it to anything that would produce the audience reaction he saw, without causing paradox.
But since the audience's (extended) reaction includes voting to send Hermoine to Azkaban, how will changing her testimony help?
If he could change part of the testimony to something demonstrably false, that no one else in the room knew at the time, he could prove that her mind had been compromised. Actually changing the memory would be a problem, and it doesn't seem like a likely solution to me, but it's still possible.