" After they implored for Dumbledore to halt the death of an innocent man, he suggested that Hermione use her Time-Turning necklace device (with three turns) to spare "more than one innocent life" - she and Harry would retrace their steps by going back three hours in time to repeat the events of the night and positively alter them.In early July, 1932, Z.Smith Reynolds, the youngest 20 year-old son of the cigarette patriarch R.J.Reynolds, was suspiciously murdered with a gunshot wound to the head at the family estate in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.They were supervised by their Faculty Advisor, Professor Andrew Maxwell (Scott Wentworth) in their college film studies course, Jason""s senior-class project at the University of Pittsburgh.]Shortly before the film""s release (during post-production), one of its stars, Hollywood""s beloved Carole Lombard (blonde wife of Clark Gable), died at the age of 33 in a tragic airplane crash near Las Vegas on January 16, 1942.He is given encouragement by a whimsical, endearing, trainee-angel named Clarence (Henry Travers).The story turns Dickensian (similar toA Christmas Carol, although told from Bob Cratchit""s point-of-view rather han from Scrooge""s) when the hysterical, despairing, and melancholy family man is shown what the small town (Bedford Falls, now renamed Pottersville after the town""s evil tycoon) would be like without him.