Time travel/ was:Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 16

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 190324






--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Shelley Gardner <k12listmomma at ...> wrote:

> Dumbledore suggests the TimeTurner only AFTER Buckbeak was executed.

zanooda:

I disagree :-). DD *knew* that Buckbeak managed to escape and he guessed how. Actually, it's possible he not only guessed it after the fact - he already knew what was going on when he came to Hagrid's with Fudge and the executioner, because he was trying to delay the execution in order to give Harry and Hermione more time.

> Shelley wrote:

> It wasn't that a future Buckbeak needed to be saved, rather, 
> it was one that had been tragically executed.

zanooda:

How do you know that? We never saw Buckbeak die, no one did. By the time the kids heard the executioner's ax, back-in-time Harry and Hermione already took Buckbeak to the Forest.

> Shelley wrote:

> The TimeTurner allows the person to go back in time. In this 
> case, things didn't go well the first time- logically, there 
> is no reason to go back in time at all if all went well the 
> first time.


zanooda:

There was no way for things to "go well" for Sirius. It is not necessary to wait until the actual Kiss to know for sure that Sirius will be Kissed. You can go back in time not only to change what already happened, but also to prevent something inevitable from happening.