[HPforGrownups] Re: Time travel/ was:Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 16

Shelley Gardner k12listmomma at comcast.net
Fri Apr 29 21:07:35 UTC 2011


No: HPFGUIDX 190332


> --- 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:
But how do you "know" that either? It's a conjecture, a presumption on 
your part.

That facts are that both Buckbeak and Sirius were scheduled for 
execution. The logical path is to assume that all went as scheduled, and 
that they were executed as scheduled, thus prompting the NEED TO CHANGE 
IT, which is exactly what a Time Turner gives a person a 2nd chance to do.

I find it hard to believe, as you suggest, that Dumbledore guesses that 
he will have, in a future time, allowed Hermione the use of the 
Time-Turner, and thus he alone knew, as it was happening, that there 
were two Grangers, two Potters and two Weasleys present that he needed 
to stall for with a cup of tea at Hagrids.

Shelley




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