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

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 115623


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:

> 
> 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.

Finwitch:

Dumbledore probably knew that Harry, Ron & Hermione were nearby, and 
wanted to give them time to save Buckbeak. He IS a Legilimens, after 
all - or at lest that Hagrid had company before they came. (Dishes, I 
recall, and Hagrid was inside with some people who had just left, 
presumably Harry. Entirely possible that as Legilimens he can sense 
Harry's/Hermione's/Ron's mind being present, and TWICE for 
Harry/Hermione. Snape can sense Harry under Invisibility Cloak, can't 
he? and it is possible that the map uses the same method.)

When he suggests the time-turner: You may save yet another life 
tonight - he knows Buckbeak has been saved by them. He doesn't, 
however, know if it was the first or second turn they lived those 
three hours... He tells them the time he sensed them TWICE, and gives 
obscure directions as to where.

Finwitch