It seems highly likely that Harry has time turned to hide Hermione's body and possible accomplish other objectives to which we are not yet privy. Evidence for this being that Harry now knows about the map when he did not before, and that he reacts to Hermione's body going missing with no emotional response whatsoever. He broadly speculates on the likely suspects for body snatching, but if he cared (which, for resurrection purposes, he surely would), then he would be far more animated: after all, he has previously.
There are some interesting wriggles in this though, in that we tend to get Harry's point of view, so we follow him when he travels back in time. There are a couple of exceptions, so this could be to increase the mystery from the reader's point of view. Worth noting that we don't see any thoughts from Harry indicating that he has made this journey, however. This could be explained by him voluntarily obliviating himself to be immune to legilmens based attacks? Or simply us not seeing his thoughts.
We have also learned that we're near the end of the fic, with one and a half arcs to go! This is intriguing stuff, and strongly implies to me that Harry is going to have to tap into ultimate power some time soon to tie up loose plot threads. Primarily among these being Voldemort's motivation of course! We as readers can guess, provided that we can take Quirrel=Voldemort for granted, which I think the text has given us strong indicators towards thus far. He seems to want to unite all of magical Britain/ the magical world into a unit strong enough to subjugate mankind and thus prevent scientific destruction. His original plan appeared to be to unite everyone round David Monroe as an opponent to Voldemort. When that didn't work (not clear why.. did the death eaters get out of control, or Monroe wasn't charismatic enough?) he decided to fake his death/accidentally got destroyed by Harry (this is, as yet, unclear), and then chose to make Harry the dark hero. It is possible/likely that Harry is either horcruxy or just Voldemort.
One revelation I would really like to see is why characters just don't seem to consider that Quirrel is a suspect. With the exception of Moody, who really only suggests it as a precaution, it really seems like theres nothing Quirrel can do which make people think that he's behind the bad stuff. Now to be fair its obviously clear that Quirrel doesn't want to kill Harry, he has demonstrated that on multiple occasions, but the unseen villain has never attempted to kill Harry!
I agree about Voldemort's motivation. As to why it didn't work, I I think Quirrell has been rather explicit that wizards were sheeple:
..."Dueling?" said the Defense Professor. From behind it wasn't visible if the pale face was smiling. "That is nothing, Lord Greengrass, to what my students have learned. They have learned not to hesitate in the face of ambushes and greater foes. They have learned to adapt when combat conditions change and change again. They have learned to protect their allies, to protect more those who are more valuable, to
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