Signing Buckbeak's execution certificate ( was:Dumbledore and respect )
Geoff Bannister
gbannister10 at aol.com
Fri Oct 15 20:53:25 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 115647
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...>
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. <
Pippin:
> 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.
Geoff:
No, it's not contamination by the media that dare not speak its name -
it's faulty reading by a member of HPFGU who went cross-eyed at the
wrong moment!
Pippin:
> 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.
Geoff:
'Hagrid turned and headed back into his cabon, leaving the door ajar."
(POA "Hermione's Secret" p.292 UK edition)
That implies to me not quite shut; I would not assume that anyone
could see out of it.
I still harbour suspicions about how much Dumbledore knew or guessed
at that point.
Geoff
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