[HPforGrownups] Re: Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 16: Professor Trelawney's prediction

[Liz Clark]

No: HPFGUIDX 190233

> Zanooda:
>> I still think that Buckbeak never lost his head. The kids only thought
>> he did, because they heard the thud of the executioner's axe and
>> assumed that Buckbeak was executed. In reality, the disappointed
>> executioner just swung his axe into the fence (into a pumpkin in the
>> movie) - Harry and Hermione witnessed it when they went back in time.
>

Taya:
I've been reading for a while, now decided to partiscipate on this time 
issue!
Time is linear, that means it only happens once, even if people have a 
perception of it occuring twice, or more. Therefore, Buckbeak never was 
beheaded because in the single time stream, Harry and Hermione saved him. 
The sound of the axe falling wasn't beheading Buckbeak, but when it swung 
into the fence. The trio assumed Buckbeak was beheaded as from their 
prospective there was no way of saving him. After Harry and Hermione went 
back in time, it then became possible for them from their prospective.
Time travel isn't an easy subject, especially if dealing with non-linear 
line! But thankfully, in the HP series, it is linear.