Hagrid and thestrals

[Kelly]

No: HPFGUIDX 77171

Hickengruendler wrote:

> Yes, but Hagrid must have seen them longer. Grubbly-Plank mentioned 
> before his return, that he has trained them not to go after the 
owls. 
> Therefore he must have seen them. 

I think that a person of Hagrid's age (I believe around 65 or so? 
according to timelines) could be witness to a number of deaths.  I 
didn't take this to be very unusual or a clue in any way because of 
his age.  Also, Hagrid has lived through the last "war," so there is 
a good chance he saw friends/ colleagues die at that time.

On a side note, do the deaths have to be human?  Hagrid is game 
keeper, and as such most likely has witnessed any number of creature 
deaths.  I don't have book 1 with me but I seem to remember him 
mentioning the possibility of putting down the unicorn if it was in 
pain?  In this light, he may have been responsible for any number of 
mercy deaths in the forrest.

Kelly