[HPFGU-OTChatter] on "seeing death" (was Re: main list survival strategy)

[artsylynda at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/2/2003 5:38:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com writes:

> JKR cleared that one up at the UK interview where she did the OOP reading.  
> According to her, she didn't want to stick them in at the end of GoF and not 
> explain them.  Therefore she decided you had to have time to process the 
> death, think about it a while, and then you see them.  My particular problem is 
> with the use of the words "seen death."  I think it should be "witness death" 
> since Harry didn't actually *see* Cedric die.  Which I seem to be the only 
> one who has a problem with that particular thing.
> 
> Richelle
> 

He apparently saw his mother killed, and relives that when the Dementors come 
around (or did until he was able to conjure up a Patronus), so *logically* he 
should've been able to see the Thestrals all along.  He didn't see Cedric 
die, but saw his dead body an instant after it hit the ground, close enough to 
"seeing" death, I imagine, to count (depending, of course, on who's counting! ;->
)  I think JKR is a brilliant writer, I think she will be this generation's 
Dickens, but I imagine even Dickens had uneven things in his stories (don't ask 
me for examples, it's been too long since I read Dickens for me to remember). 
 This Thestral question, though, is quite illogical compared to most of JKR's 
writing.  JMO.

Lynda 
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". . .the cat's among the pixies now."  Mrs. Figg, OoP


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