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Out of curiosity, does anyone know or have any idea what time the trial's taking place? If it's before 3 PM Harry's unable to use his Time Turner to change the events of the trial. Unless he cheats the Time Turner like last time, or gets his Time Turner's restriction taken off, but he can't do that easily while the trial is going on.
"Wanted to be functional" meaning if he doesn't sleep now, he'd have little sleep. Which wouldn't have been a problem in the first place if he was allowed to sleep in.
...which means classes are still going on, at that moment (Monday). I'm not sure when classes end for Harry but it's probably closer to morning than evening.
Okay I have no clue now. But the wording implies that it's not morning anymore, so... I'm going with noon/early afternoon, 12 to 2 PMish.
From chapter 79,
Time Tuners can't change events. MacGonagal says that when she gives it to him and the story doesn't say otherwise, yet.
Which doesn't (necessarily) mean you don't go back in time and change events anyway. You will never change events but events will be arranged such that this never happens. When you are the kind of person who would do that you may find yourself getting mysterious notes and fortunate coincidences from time to time.
The details of whether or not the above is a wise strategy depends on the nature of the time-travel mechanism, decision theory.
I don't necessarily endorse a time travel based solution to this particular problem. I haven't read it am waiting till the cliffhanger is revealed fully before I get into it. I'm not a fan of delays out of my control so I'm applying pre-emptive patience!