The Importance of Being Buckbeak (Was: Ginny Forever, Forever Ginny)

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 10874

cassandraclaire at mail.com wrote:

> I wouldn't say CoS was all about Ginny. She was a Plot Device and had
> less lines than Aragog, the giant spider. She served her purpose and
> made about as big an impression with her personality as Buckbeak did
> in Book 3, only she was less useful.

I disagree. Buckbeak is far more useful than Ginny Weasley, for a whole
variety of reasons. For space reasons, only some are listed below:

1) Buckbeak attacked Draco Malfoy. In my book, any creature, human,
non-human, earthly or not, which attacks Canon!Draco deserves a bloody
medal.

2) Buckbeak highlights a shockingly low regard for animal welfare in the
wizarding community. His selfless near-martyrdom shows a will of steel, a
heart of gold, a spleen of mercury, a--[That's enough. -Ed.]

3) Buckbeak saves Sirius Black. Without Beaky's heroic efforts, Sirius would
have been returned to Azkaban or, worse, been Kissed by a Dementor. We'd
never have had A Sirius Affair, nor would Harry and Draco be stepbrothers in
DD/DS.

4) Buckbeak doesn't whine, even when he's about to be viciously murdered in
cold blood by Lucius Malfoy's Death Eater crony Macnair. Ginny, on the other
hand...

5) Buckbeak just looks cool, darnit.

--John, Chief Minion of the Muggles for Hippogriff Rights campaign

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John Walton                 john at walton.to

"Con-ser-va-tive, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as
distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."
--Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary", 1842-c.1914

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