[HPforGrownups] Order of the Phoenix

[The Crashing Boar]

No: HPFGUIDX 72859

From: scooting2win 
  <<<snip>Now, my second question is rather silly, but I still don't agree 
  with what was said about it. I think that Harry should have seen the 
  horses at the end of his fourth year, he was fully aware and 
  understood that Cedric was dead. He had gone to the feast and 
  understood that Cedric was dead when he saw the black in honor of 
  Cedric. Someone who does not have an understanding that Cedric was 
  dead would not have been so afflicted by the feast in itself.  any 
  thoughts?

  Scooting2win


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  Did Harry (or anyone else, for that matter) use the carriages at the end of the year?  When Harry gets out of the express at the start of his 4th (academic) year, it is the first time he has seen them.  As he had previously arrived by boat, car and Knight bus, it would seem that the carriages are only laid on at the start of the year, not the end, so Harry didn't see the thestrals until the start of his 5th year.

  Dawn


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