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

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 190372

> June:
> <snip> 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.

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


June:
Dumbledore would have known what really happened (in their time line)
as it was in the past so he likely knew that it was unlikely that
Hagrid would have let Buckbeak go or to have been careless with
tying him up (remember Hagrid was afraid of the consequences if he
let Buckbeak go) and it was obvious to everyone that knew Sirius was
in the castle that he was going to get the Dememtor's kiss, so
Dumbledore would have realized that at some point things had been
changed and he would have known the only possible way that could have
happened. That is why he sent Hermione and Harry because he knew for
Buckbeak to be alive and Sirius to not be kissed that, they were the
ones who had to have done it in the past (confusing lol). One thing
though that really baffles me is, if they went in the past and Harry
saved himself, it is logical that at some point he would have
received the Dementor's kiss because there could not have been a
first instance when he was there to save himself because he didn't go
back in time yet, so how did he go back in time in the first place?