Flint in ch 21[ootp]

[bluesqueak]

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> > IF YOU CAN SEE A THESTRAL AFTER YOU'VE SEEN DEATH WHY Couldn't 
> Harry see them in years past? Does that mean he didn't actually  
> see his parents die, but just heard them?
> Ali 
> That's how I read it. James was in a different room, and it's 
> possible that Harry didn't see Lily die. It can be rationalised,  
> but it does have the feel of a flint about it.
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I'm not so sure. When Harry saw his parents die, or heard them die, 
he was eighteen months old. He didn't understand what was happening. 

So, yes, technically he had seen death, but 'you have seen death' 
usually has a sort of unspoken subtext of ' and you understood that 
someone died'.

Cedric's death was the first time that Harry 'saw' death in that 
sense. He saw Cedric die. He understood that Cedric had died.  He 
saw death.

So I don't think it counts as a flint ...

Pip