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

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 190295

> > 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:
> 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.


June:
I know time travel isn't possible, however I love shows and movies
that deal with it, but I will tell you this...it confuses the heck
out of me lol. I have a very logical way of thinking which tells me
to need to go back in time to fix something, it would have had to
have gone wrong in the first place, which would have to mean that on
some timeline Buckbeak would have had to have lost his head. I think
the best explanation was given by Christopher Lloyd (Doctor Emmett
Brown) in Back to the Future 2. He explains that when he and Marty
went to the future and Biff stole the DeLorean and went back in time
and made changes an alternative timeline was created. This is the
only possible way that any changes in time could make sense
logically. Therefore for Buckbeack to have lost his head there would
have been a Harry and Hermione who had gone back in time and created
the alternative timeline, however the only way that alternative time
line would stay is by Hermione and Harry going back in time in every
instance, otherwise (in my opinion) Buckbeak would lose his head.
Wow time travel is confusing, lol.








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