OOP: Mysteries and Inconsistencies

[falcongk81]

No: HPFGUIDX 62784

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "silencescreamsatme" 
<silencescreamsatme at y...> wrote:
> Sharai says:
> I know that Harry was a baby, but didn't he witness his mother 
> die. Does one have to be cognicant of the death?  Does the death have 
to be witnessed, or just someone you know?  Is seeing the person 
dead - like at a funeral - enough?

~Silence wrote:
> That's DEFINATLY one thing I was wondering. The one thing I can 
come up with is that maybe it's because you have to be able to remember 
> the death. Harry was just a baby so he doesn't remember seeing his 
> mother killed. Later it comes back in dreams and with the dementors 
I know, but I don't think that counts where the thestrals are 
concerned. >>>>>>


First off, I'm new to this group, having just finished OotP I was 
positively drooling to discuss it.  Just wanted to say hello, and its 
good to be able to talk with people about this wonderful new addition 
to the Potter-verse.

I'd have to say that he wasn't developed enough to have seen his 
mother die.  Seeing the thestrals would probably require the child be 
able to remember the event happening.  It certainly is an interesting 
question to ponder.

Another good one is, who has Nevile seen die?  His parents didn't 
die, and he would have been around the same age as Harry when they 
were attacked, so that doesn't fit.  Whoever Neville saw die it could 
be important later on.  Of course, I'm gonna give the book a second 
read through, Neville may have told who he saw die, and I've just 
forgotten.  Gonna make a list of things like this that bother me, and 
read it through a second time to see if I just missed something.

FalconGK