OOP Thestral mistake? (Spoiler)

[tish]

No: HPFGUIDX 63329

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i...> 
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> davidbartmess wrote:
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> >      Now supposedly, Harry was able to see them for the first 
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> > this year because he saw Cedric die last year, at least that's 
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> > I'm lead to believe, but the problem is that Harry saw death 
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> Richelle
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  What I am most puzzled by is (no matter what the translation 
of "seen death" is) that Harry didn't see them at the end of GOF.  
If the Thestrals were there all along, surely he would have noticed 
them while leaving school at the end of GOF.  

Tish