"Seeing" death (and Thestrals)

[D.G.]

No: HPFGUIDX 69258

Well, here's JKR's hit on why Harry, who has seen death twice (once 
as an infant when his mother was killed by Lord V., once last year 
when Cedric was killed by Lord V. [which CAN'T be a coincidence, by 
the way] only began to see those winged things this semester:

"Harry has never seen the Thestrals pulling the school carriages 
before, but he has witnessed death several times: his mother and 
Cedric. Why didn't he see the Thestrals before? Rowling has answered 
that question in the Royal Albert Hall interview (RAH) Thursday June 
26, 2003. She said that it takes a while for a death to be processed, 
to be accepted. Harry hadn't yet come to that point with Cedric's 
death at the end of the last school year. He was too young to 
understand his mother's death and so that never registered in the 
same way."

(This from a "List Of Supposed Errors" that just got posted on the 
Harry Potter Lexicon)


D.G. ("JazzmanChgo")