OOP: Why couldn't Harry see them before?

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No: HPFGUIDX 62390

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bunnie1222" <Bunnie1222 at y...> 
wrote:
> If you have to have seen death to be able to see a thestral - why 
> couldn't Harry see them all along - wasn't his mother murdered 
right 
> in front of him when he was a year old?  Or is it something to do 
> with the age and/or the level of comphrension?  Just curious on 
other 
> peoples thoughts.
> 
> "Bunnie"

I wondered that too, and I thought of the age/comprehnsion 
explanation too, but I think that Harry didn't see his mother's death 
at all.  He certainly heard it, but the only references I remember to 
what he saw only describe a flash of green light.  He perhaps hid his 
eyes, or was blinded by the flash.  So unless I'm forgetting a 
reference to him actually seeing his mother die, it fits.