[HPforGrownups] Time Turner (WAS Re: POA Prongs Patronus)

[Alina]

No: HPFGUIDX 100495

> Maria,
>
> Thank you that was a pretty good explanation, except for one thing...
> Now you're telling me that Buckbeak never died?  What about their
> mission to save more than one innocent life?
>
> You have to excuse me, I am a scientist. This is a little too
> abstract for me.  How do you know all of this?
>
> Debbie
>


Erm, no one died during the whole sequence, not Buckbeak, not Sirius and not
Harry. But if Harry and Hermione didn't go back in time, they would've
changed history, Buckbeak, Sirius and likely Harry too would've all been
dead. When DD tells them to save innocent lives, he's not telling them to
prevent deaths that have happened, but to make sure that those deaths don't
happen.

Anyway, we know Buckbeak didn't die because we never saw him die the first
time around. All we heard was the thump of the axe, but it was revealed
later as McNair swinging at the fence in frustration.

To reiterate: H&H didn't change history, they maintained it.

Alina.