[HPforGrownups] Omniscient Dumbledore and the time paradox

[Tammy Rizzo]

No: HPFGUIDX 55007



On 9 Apr 2003 at 3:07, weeoo0 wrote:

> So i am wondering, how omniscent is Dumbledore?
> He tells HH they can save another innocent life
> referring to buckbeak, when, using a linear timeline,
> buckbeak has already been saved.
> I realize this has already been discussed ad nauseum
> on this list, but it's been bugging me.
> thought?

Okay, here's a thought.  Dumbledore cannot simply tell Harry and Hermione what 
they're supposed to do, because he doesn't really KNOW what they did, exactly. 
After all, he didn't SEE them take Buckbeak.  As far as we know, all he really 
KNOWS is that Buckbeak vanished, and that Harry has that invisibility cloak, and 
that Hermione has that Time Turner.  Put 'em together and Dumbledore knows the 
possibility exists that HH did something about Buckbeak.  The thing is, they didn't 
know they were going to do something.  They thought Buckbeak had been killed.  
He gave them the clue they needed, based on the clues he had.

Does that make sense, or does it sound too circular?  Given, of course, that it IS, by 
nature, circular.  :)

Tammy