[HPforGrownups] More questions about Buckbeak

[Carrie S]

No: HPFGUIDX 54381

Briony asked: 

1 - If Sirius is cleared, what could happen to Buckbeak?  Wouldn't 
Buckbeak be still under sentence of death?  Perhaps they would be
too busy about Voldemort to worry about a hippogriff.

I respond....
If Hippogriffs are like birds, it could be really hard to tell one from another. If he stays away long enough, they might just give up on the idea. 

Even if Hippogriffs are like cats and dogs and look differently from one another, I think it would be hard to prove Buckbeak was really Buckbeak other than just another similar looking Hippogriff after he had been away for a while. I think this is why they tried to find him right after he escaped. If he flew the coop completely, they didn't have a chance of getting him executed. 

Also, who is going to identify him as the one and only Buckbeak? Hagrid?? I doubt he would admit if they had the right animal. 

In MB&WTFT, it says that wizards keep them as pets. It sort of puts a different spin on Hagrid, I think. The kids saw these as hugely dangerous creatures and we are led to believe, it wasn't a good choice of Hagrid's to use them. But I think Hagrid actually made a good choice of introducing these to the class. He chose something that was definately impressive and a little scary, but basically tame....if you followed directions and listened to your professor, no problems. I always thought Hagrid got a bad rap as being not too bright. I think he's a pretty smart fellow.  

Carrie, a Hagrid fan


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