OOP Thestral mistake?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 63298

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lhunneb" 
<LHunneb at a...> wrote:
 but the problem is that Harry saw death long 
> > before last year.  Harry was present when LV killed his mom, 
wasn't  he?  Do you have to be old enough to remember seeing 
the person  die?  Was Harry in the same room when LV killed 
his mom?  Possible mistake by JRK?  What do you think?
> 
> It may be that, because Harry was so young when his mother 
was killed, he didn't really know what was happening.  
<snip>
> 
> My problem is not with that, but with the timing of the Cedric 
> thing.  Harry saw Cedric die before the end of term.  Didn't the 
> carriages take the students back to the train to go home *after* 
> that?  He should have been able to see them then.<<

Harry does not remember seeing his parents die. His only 
memory is of a flash of "blinding" green light. The Dementor 
memories bring him only sounds, not visions.

He didn't remember seeing Cedric die either. He hid his eyes. 
Only when he relived the experience  in his dreams (possibly 
mingled with Voldemort's recollections?) could he have seen 
Cedric die. 

There's a pyschological truth in this, that the knowledge of 
death takes time to sink in. Harry seems to accept Cedric's 
death at once, but that's because we're being told the events as 
he recalled them a month later. When he actually left Hogwarts, 
he would still have been in denial, and the thestrals would have 
been invisible. 

Pippin