Musing on Buckbeak/ Some Crookshanks and Snape

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 166253

 
> Alla:
> 
> I think that animal reactions are valid canon analysis ever since 
> JKR introduced Crookshanks into canon
>

Hickengruendler:

But Crookshanks is Crookshanks and Buckbeak is Buckbeak. Crookshanks 
is part Kneazle and we know from "Fantastic Beasts" that they have 
the ability to detect unsavoury characters. We know nothing like this 
about Hippogriffs, neither from Hagrid nor from "Fantastic Beasts". 
So I would argue that it is in Crookshanks' nature to detect 
traitors, while it isn't in Buckbeak's.

About the question asked by Carol, why Buckbeak didn't attack the 
other DE's, just Snape. (Even if one thinks Snape is evil, I think we 
all agree that the other Death Eaters are as well, therefore Buckbeak 
definitely had a reason to attack them, since they were evil and a 
danger to Harry.) I thought it was, because Snape stopped them. We 
don't know, what Buckbeak wanted to do, maybe he thought it wasn't 
necessary to attack the Death Eaters, since Snaped saved harry. But 
once Snape attacked Harry as well, Buckbeak reacted.