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

[Shelley Gardner]

No: HPFGUIDX 190343


>> Shelley: But then that presents to me a much more unbelievable situation,
>> how after the fact of no executions, Dumbledore commanded Hermione to use her TimeTurner to save those two lives.
> zanooda:
>
> What do you mean by "after the fact of no executions"? DD sent H&H back in time not *after*, but *before* - ten or fifteen minutes *before* Sirius was supposed to be executed.
Shelley:
If Buckbeak had not been executed, (because he was saved by H&H), and 
the execution of Sirius was still 10 or 15 minutes off, is not that then 
"no executions"? At that point in time that Dumbledore is speaking to 
Hermione, by your theory, that statement is true- a future execution 
hasn't happened yet.