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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 115635


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

Movie contamination, I'm afraid. Macnair and Hagrid are the only 
ones who sign in the book. Dumbledore   reminds Macnair  to 
sign the certificate as Harry is trying to get Buckbeak away. The 
cabin door was open, so very possibly Dumbledore actually saw 
Harry and Hermione out there, though it was too dark inside the 
cabin for Harry to see him.

Pippin