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

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 190314

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:10 PM, June Ewing <doctorwhofan02 at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> June:
> If it never happened in any timeline, what was the point of sending
> them back? Think logically for a minute. Let's say for argument
> sake that you have had a normal good day and nothing went wrong,
> but someone you know and respect tells you that you need to go back
> in time to ensure that a friend does not die in the past. One of
> two things has to have happened here. Either your friend in some
> timeline has died or the person you respect who is telling you to
> go back in time to save a friend who was not in danger is suffering
> a mental breakdown of sorts. It is like going to the trouble of
> fixing a stereo that is sitting right in front of you playing and
> sounding great. There is no reason to fix it. So for Dumbledore to
> send Harry and Hermione into the past to stop Buckbeak from being
> beheaded and to save Sirius from the dementor's kiss, there would
> have to be a reason. You don't just fix some thing that hasn't been
> broken.

You do if you know there's a strong possibility that the bad thing
*will* happen--as Dumbledore certainly might, knowing the people
involved.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean56 at gmail.com>