[HPforGrownups] Re: Trusting Dumbledore (was: Snape and Dumbledores trust)

[Kathryn Wolber]

No: HPFGUIDX 54761


JKR: <snip>"I decided was that magic__cannot__bring__dead__people__back  to life; that' - that's one of the most profound things, the
- the natural law of - of - of death applies to wizards as it applies to Muggles and there is no returning once you're properly dead, you know, they might be able to save very close-to-death people better than we can, by magic."
greatlit2003 <hieya at hotmail.com> wrote:

I think that the ending of PoA was not in accordance with the rules JKR set initially. If Buckbeak can come back from the dead, why shouldn't Harry's parents be able to do so? 

Me: Well technically, I wouldn't say he came back from the dead.  With the Time Turner, they went back and changed the past...so to everyone else, Buckbeak never died.  And secondly, though I know this isn't the technacality JKR would use for Buckbeak, she said death applies to *wizards* as it does to muggles, not magical beasts.  So she never addressed the Buckbeak issue. 

greatlit2003:Harry was able to save himself, Sirius and Hermione only after he came back from the future and saved himself initially. Does that make sense? How did Harry arrive across the lake in the first place if he was about to be attacked by the dementors? 

Me: Hmm, well Harry didn't bring himself back from the dead, he just used magic to save himself in the first place, so this doesn't really apply.  Cause JKR said that magic can be used to save people very close to death.  I think Harry saving himself in PoA is what made her so (searching for a word) shaky maybe at that part.  I think she was genuinely trying to say something that wouldn't be contradictory to the books.

greatlit2003:

I wouldn't want to dismiss this situation as simply "magic" because a lot of other tragedies could have been prevented if the victims (or their friends) had an access to a Time Turner. 

Me:Well, that's why Time Turners are so hard to get.  If it hadn't been for McGonnagall I'm sure Hermione, as an underage muggle-born witch, would not have been allowed to get one.  You can't just have one...how confusing would it be if witches/wizards everywhere could change the past at their will?  In addition, since use of the Time Turner is so monitored, the MoM would know if you had gone back in time to save a life, and then you would lise your Time Turner and possibly be fined or sent to Azkaban.  And as far as Harry's parents...for some reason, I think there was a purpose behind their death.  We won't know for sure until we find out what Trelawney's first true prediction was...but I'm sure if it hadn't been in the cards for them to die, someone in the wizarding world would have tried to save them.  

*Kathryn*, who enjoyed this post because it gave her something to think about this morning:)



 



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