[HPforGrownups] OOP : SPOILER : Mysteries and Inconsistencies

[Darrell Harris]

No: HPFGUIDX 62812

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Message: 23
   Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:51:09 -0000
   From: "quimbyquidditch" <qmasters at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: OOP: Mysteries and Inconsistencies


> And why aren't thestrals mentioned in FBAWTFT?  (The
obvious answer 
> is, of course, that JKR has made them up since she
wrote it)

Thestrals are mentioned in Fantastic Beasts.  I
couldn't find them at 
first either, but if you look at the entry for "Winged
horses"  (p. 
42 in the British version of the book), it reads in
part, "Winged 
horses exist worldwide.  There are many different
breeds, 
including . . . the rare Thestral (black, possessed of
the power of 
invisibility and considered unlucky by many wizards)."

You also ask why Harry couldn't see them at the end of
GoF.  I can't 
remember any of the books mentioning how they get back
to the train 
station from Hogwarts.  Is it possible they don't take
the carriages 
from Hogwarts to the station, just from the station to
Hogwarts?  

Quimby


I'll take a stab at that last one. At the end of GOF
we see Harry finally able to look back on the events
surrounding Cedric's death a month or so after the
event. IMHO he had no come to grips with the death
prior to the end of term so he wasn't yet receptive to
the concept and couldn't see the  Thestrals.



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