Dumbledore is a side character. He needed to be got rid of, so neither Harry nor the reader would expect or hope for Dumbledore to show up at the last minute and save the day
There’s technically six more hours of story time for a time-turned Dumbledore to show up, before going on to get trapped. He does mention that he’s in two places during the mirror scene.
Dumbledore has previously stated that trying to fake situations goes terribly wrong, so there could be some interesting play with that concept and him being trapped by the mirror.
There’s technically six more hours of story time for a time-turned Dumbledore to show up, before going on to get trapped. He does mention that he’s in two places during the mirror scene.
Dumbledore has previously stated that trying to fake situations goes terribly wrong, so there could be some interesting play with that concept and him being trapped by the mirror.
Mirro!Dumbledore appears to not be time-turned: 110 was edited so that Dumbledore says:
That doesn’t sound like he just spun back—it sounds like there might be more than one Dumbledore running around.