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

[Geoff Bannister]

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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