Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 16: Professor Trelawney's prediction

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 190306





--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, June Ewing <doctorwhofan02 at ...> wrote:

> 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.

zanooda:

Buckbeak was about to be executed, and there was no way to save him - that's what has "gone wrong" :-), and without Buckbeak Sirius was doomed as well. But this doesn't mean that Buckbeak lost his head.

There is only one timeline in this case, because Harry and Hermione went back in time *before* Buckbeak was executed. *If* the kids saw the executioner behead him, *if* he actually died, and only *after* that H&H went back to prevent this from happening, then yes, there would have been a second timeline (I suppose :-)), where Buckbeak died and Sirius was Kissed. 

But that's not what happened in the book. H&H went back in time *before* Buckbeak was killed and prevented it, therefore he was never killed. JMO :-).