Chapt Disc: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 16: - More Time Travel Justification

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 190399

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> Steve:
> Not quite. Buckbeak getting away doesn't solve all the problems.
Buckbeak is relatively tame as Hypogriphs go. He also seem somewhat
bonded to Hagrid. So, Buckbeak could come wandering back, or be found
grazing nearby, and be in danger again. However, Buckbeak being free
and not dead, eventually gives Dumbledore the idea to use Buckbeak.

> Now, he doesn't necessarily know, that TT!Harry and TT!Hermione
help Buckbeak escape, but the odds of Buckbeak escaping are much
higher if TT!H/H are there. And the odds of Buckbeak escaping in a
way that is helpful to the current situation are even higher.

> True if literally nothing happens, then nothing needs to be fixed.
I'll agree with that.

But in this situation, it is pretty hard to say nothing is happening.
In the beginning Buckbeak's death is eminent, virtually guaranteed;
by the end Sirius is in grave danger, and Peter has escaped. That is
> far from nothing. <snip>


June:
My point is that something did happen because they did end up
having to save Buckbeak. You have a very good point that if
Buckbeak had gotten free on his own (which he did not), he would
most likely have come running back to Hagrid, but that obviously
was not the case. Also as we saw in the original time line (or
at least what we perceive as the original time line) Buckbeak
was in fact tied up in the pumpkin patch waiting his execution
and as we saw when Harry and Hermione went back in time, there
was no time between past Harry, Hermione and Ron leaving and
future Harry and Hermione going in to rescue Buckbeak for
Buckbeak to have broken his rope and escape. However that being
said, if for even an instance Dumbledore had thought that was
what happened it is likely he would still send them back to free
him to take him to Sirius.