[HPforGrownups] Time Travel in the Series

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 19685

JamiDeise at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 5/29/2001 4:12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> mss4a at cstone.net writes:
> 
> << If this "one timeline" theory is true, then, no HP character can
>  actually change the events of the past; the only thing the Time
>  Turner lets you do is be in two places at once.
>   >>
> 
> 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. 

No, it doesn't -- that's only what they =thought= they were
hearing.  They heard Macnair slamming his axe into the fence in
frustration, and Hagrid crying out in astonishment.  But they
were psychologically prepared to hear the killing stroke and
Hagrid lamenting, so that's what they perceived.

> If it were consistently one time line, the three would have
> overheard the swears of a frustrated Macnair, not Buckbeak's death.

They'd probably beat it before Macnair started cursing.



--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>