Hagrid and thestrals

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 77309

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, yellows at a... wrote:
> 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?
> 


Brief Chronicles:
> 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.
> 


Geoff: 
"The only people who can see Threstals" she said, "are people who 
have seen death."

Depends how you interpret this. It is not everybody who has seen folk 
after death and possibly even fewer who have seen folk actually pass 
away. I saw both my parents just after they died but was prevented 
being there when my mother passed on because of traffic (of all 
things!). I believe that HP, LL and NL can see them for the former 
reason. Just my view.....