[HPforGrownups] Time Travel in the Series

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 19696

At 04:44 PM 5/29/01 -0400, JamiDeise at aol.com wrote:
>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.

And at 04:13 PM 5/29/01 -0400 (thirty one minutes earlier!!), Margaret Dean 
wrote:
> > 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.

Is someone using a Time Turner on this list?  I'm receiving
replies to messages *before* the messages they're replying
to!!  :)



                         -- Dave