Time Travel in the Series

[Colonel Astudillo]

No: HPFGUIDX 19684


> Harry seeing the patronus that his future self creates, conflicts 
with the 
> earlier scene of Harry, Ron and Hermione hearing poor Buckbeak's 
neck get 
> chopped off. If it were consistently one time line, the three would 
have 
> overheard the swears of a frustrated Macnair, not Buckbeak's death.
> 
> Jami

actually, i beleive the whole one timeline thing applies here as 
well.  Harry, Ron and Hermione did not hear Buckbeak get killed.  all 
they heard was a chop and a large cry by Hagrid, then they took off.

when Harry and Hermione went back, they detailed all the 
events...Buckbeak escaped, i think the executioner chopped the axe on 
the block out of anger, and Hagrid's cries were of joy...ones which 
are probably hard to tell apart from cries of agony, the source being 
a giant :)

at any rate, they do not hear buckbeak get killed, they only think 
he's killed.  or something like that, my memory is really vague.