OOP: on "seeing death" (was Re: main list survival strategy)

[yyssww2001]

> I think that this is probably what JKR was thinking when she 
planned 
> to put the Thestrals after the death of Cedric; that 'to see death' 
> is to experience the death of someone you know, and to understand 
> that they are never, ever coming back.

Well, he didn't see the thestral when he was going back from hogwarts 
at the end of his 4th year. I remember (although i'm not sure of the 
exact words) harry saw the horseless carriages but did not seem to 
see what pulled them ..