Buckbeak (was: Chapter Discussion:)

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 190242


> > June wrote:

> > or why would Harry and Hermione have to go back in the first place

> zanooda:

> They went back to prevent this from happening. This was supposed to
> happen, but didn't, *because* they went back in time :-).


June

I see your point. Dumbledore no doubt knew what would happen and at some point decided that he would send them back, however there is just one flaw. Because he sent them back to do it then at some point it would have happened. In order to avoid it happening at all, he would have had to have sent them forward in which case they could have stopped it in the future so it would never have happend.