Thestrals (was: Main List Survival Strategy )

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "joywitch_m_curmudgeon" 
<joym999 at a...> wrote:

> Mine is almost as bad, though -- I skim thru the subject headings, 
> reading all the posts by people I know and occasional (interesting-
> sounding) posts by people I don't know.  I've gotten to know a few 
> new people that way, but not many.  After all, membership is up to 
> 8500, and counting.  Yikes!

If you don't read Main List posts by people you don't know, then you 
probably haven't seen all the combined-reply messages because 
threading doesn't work on them) replying to you that Neville saw the 
thestrals because he saw his grandfather die (presumably quite 
peacefully, of old age, at home or in a hospice with the family 
gathered around) and that Thestrals *were* mentioned in FB -- they 
got half a sentence in the one short paragraph on Winged Horses. 

Which, along with the section on Werewolves not telling how to 
distinguish the werewolf from the true wolf (the shape of the snout, 
the pupil of the eye, the tufted tail, and two others), is Proof that 
the Muggle edition of FB is heavily abridged...