Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Buckbeak
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| Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter - Character | |
| Buckbeak | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Hair color | Stormy gray |
| Eye color | Orange |
| Related Family | Unknown |
| Loyalty | Rubeus Hagrid |
Contents |
[edit] Overview
Buckbeak is Hagrid's favorite Hippogriff, a creature who has the forequarters of an eagle and the hindquarters of a horse.
[edit] Role in the Books
[edit] Prisoner of Azkaban
One of the subplots of the book involves the attempted execution of Buckbeak. Harry Potter is introduced to him and rides him; Draco Malfoy is introduced to him, insults him, and is injured by him. Draco exaggerates his injury, and, as Professor Dumbledore will not sack Rubeus Hagrid from his job as Care of Magical Creatures teacher, Lucius Malfoy, Draco's father, attempts to have Buckbeak prosecuted by the Ministry for Magic as a dangerous creature. Hagrid doesn't stand much of a chance against Lucius' eloquence, so Buckbeak is sentenced to death. At the eleventh hour and a bit, with assistance from Hermione Granger, Harry saves Buckbeak and gives him to Sirius Black, who escapes on him.
[edit] Goblet of Fire
Sirius apparently returns to the environs of Hogsmeade with Buckbeak; Harry, Hermione, and Ron meet him when they visit Sirius in the cave he is inhabiting outside the village.
[edit] Order of the Phoenix
Sirius is now living at 12 Grimmauld Place, and Buckbeak is living in an attic room there. Throughout the story, Sirius is seen carrying bags of rats up to Buckbeak, and for a while Harry is spending a lot of time with him so that he does not have to relate to humans.
[edit] Half-Blood Prince
With the death of Sirius, Buckbeak now has to move, and so he returns to Hagrid's care. Renamed Witherwings, so as to avoid the wrath of the Ministry, Buckbeak now lives in Hagrid's cottage. The only active part he plays in this story is near the end: as Severus Snape is escaping, Buckbeak tries to attack him, perhaps in retaliation for Severus' setting Hagrid's hut on fire.
[edit] Deathly Hallows
Buckbeak again joins in near the end of the story, attacking the Death Eaters in the Battle of Hogwarts.
