Hagrid and thestrals

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 77215

Someone mentioned recently that Harry had travelled in the Hogwarts 
carriages four times. This should of course be only three because the 
didn't travel in them in COS. This is arrival journeys; there is an 
implication in POA that this is the only time each year because Harry 
seemed to be using them for the first time in POA. In PS, we are told 
that the First Years used the boats again and nothing is said in COS.

The interesting thing which caught my eye when doing research into 
this tonight was the following from POA:

"Harry, Ron and Hermione followed the rest of the school out onto a 
rough mud track, where at least a hundred stagecoaches awaited the 
remaining students, each pulled, Harry could only assume, by an 
invisible horse......."

(p.68, "The Dementor" chapter)

Geoff