[HPforGrownups] Hagrid the animal abuser

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 166148

Betsy Hp:
> Actually, the amount of time it took for Draco's injury to heal had 
> nothing to do with Buckbeak getting destroyed.  IIRC, the WW law was, 
> a hippogriff attacks a human, that hippogriff is put down.  Just by 
> being injured (which Draco legitimately was, as evidenced by the 
> copious amount of blood) Buckbeak's life was forfeit.  

Bart:
	I don't have the book handy, but if that were the case, Buckbeak would 
have been put down almost immediately, and Malfoy wouldn't have had to 
use his influence, and Hagrid would not have gotten appeals. Even in 
Muggle law, in general, an animal has to attack a human twice, causing 
severe injury, unprovoked, before getting destroyed. Buckbeak was 
provoked, attacked once, and, by WW standards, what Draco got was a 
scratch; he lied, pretending it was much worse.

	Bart