Signing Buckbeak's execution certificate ( was:Dumbledore and respect )

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 115616


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Metylda <bamf505 at y...> wrote:
> (massive snippage)

bamf:
> 
> Dumbledore, IMHO, take everything he does with a bit
> of salt.  He takes his work seriously, but not
> himself.  I don't remember anytime he's required or
> corrected anyone on his title, except in the case of
> OFFICIAL functions - (Cos)signing Buckbeak's execution
> notice (I know he insisted upon signing in, but I
> don't have my book in front of my to say HOW he signed
> it)

Geoff:
we're not told how he signed it [maybe with a quill :-) ]

What does interest me - and let me say first that I avoid time-
turning theory threads like the plague - is why he insisted on 
signing almost as an afterthought. I get the impression from the 
scene that he seems to know that extra delay is needed in order for 
the "future Harry and Co". to shift Buckbeak out of sight of Hagrid's 
hut.

Or am I turning into a conspiracy theorist?

Geoff
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