Musing on Buckbeak

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No: HPFGUIDX 166233

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:
>
> I was thinking that it would have taken  a brave 
> bureaucrat to pardon Bucky. If there had ever been another attack, 
> that official would be held accountable.  I suppose Draco
> denied that he'd ever insulted the thing. Hagrid couldn't
> have heard him do it or he'd have put a stop to it. Harry's evidence,
> if he'd been called to give it, wouldn't have done much good.
> Everyone knows he's got it in for Draco.
> 
>  Then I remembered that Buckbeak did attack again.
> He went at Snape, chasing him out of Hogwarts in HBP. Now, since
> we all know Bucky is not a mad hippogriff and Snape hadn't been
> insulting him, what made Buckbeak attack? Any ideas?


Alla:

You asked. :) Buckbeack has a sixth sense that allows him to recognise 
bad people, sort of like Crookcshanks does. That is why he attacked 
Snape. That and the fact that he thought Harry was in danger.

Too bad Buckbeack did not manage to catch him.

That's my idea anyways.

JMO,

Alla.