[Oop Spoiler!] Intriguing creatures: Mystery or Discrepancy?

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Yes, I too, thought that Harry being able to see the Thestrals only 
after Cedric dying didn't make sense. Because not only does he 
remember the flash of green light from the curse that killed his 
mother, but he *heard* her being killed, as he is constantly 
reminded of when in the presence of the Dementors (CoS. When he's 
around the Dementors, he hears Voldemort killing his mother, so he 
must have been right there next to her; I always imagined that Lily 
had been holding him in her arms to protect him... But say she 
wasn't literally holding him, and he was, like, lying on the 
changing table, or his crib, or something, and staring at the 
ceiling, as babies usually have to, I mean, that's close enough, I 
would think, for him to have been able to see the Thestrals from the 
beginning. 

Wait, but he did see the green light, so he couldn't have been lying 
on the changing table staring at the ceiling. So if we're to assume 
that he couldn't see the Thestrals because he didn't actually 
witness the exact second his mother died, well, I think that's kind 
of niggling; I think being right there and hearing it should have 
counted.