[HPforGrownups] Re: Hagrid and thestrals

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In a message dated 8/14/2003 2:42:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, gbannister10 writes:

> Geoff:
> 
> Two possibilities. In GOF, Hagrid tells Harry that his father died 
> during Hagrid's second year at Hogwarts. Did he see his father after 
> his death?
> 
> Additionally, in POA when Harry overheards the conversation between 
> McGonagall/Fudge/Flitwick/Hagrid in the Thre Broomsticks ("The 
> MArauder's Map" p.153), Hagrid says that he pulled Harry from the 
> ruins of the Potter house after Voldemort's attack just after Lily 
> and James were killed. Does this imply that he must have 
> seen their 
> bodies?

I thought the person had to *watch* someone die in order to see the Thestrals, not see a dead body after the fact. That's why, I think, it was so eerie to notice that a few of the students could see the beasts in their teenage years. Many adults haven't seen a person die in front of their eyes; it made us all wonder who Neville, etc., had already watched snuff it.

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