[Oop Spoiler!] Intriguing creatures: Mystery or Discrepancy?

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 63472

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "innovan" <innovan at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Katherine Welsh" <kat at p...> 
> wrote:
> > Perhaps he has to not only see death, but be old/mature enough 
to 
> > understand.  In that case, what he saw as a baby 
wouldn't "count."
> 
> 
> In SS Neville crys himself to sleep frightened by the
> "monsters" he sees flying over the forest that no one else can see.
> 
> Innovan

I posted about this but in the torrent of reveiws arriving lately I 
am thinking that noone may ever find that I am interested in this 
debate too.

Heres a little cut and paste.

I would like to say that 
the fine distinction between witnessing a death and *seeing Death* 
needs to be addressed.
JK carefully adresses the mystery with two viewpoints. Hermione's 
and Luna's.
Obviously, we look into the two to see how it accurately portrays 
Harry. Not just the one.
Hermiones precise textbook statement is. "....seen Death"
Whereas Luna adds the subjected interpretation of "...seen someone 
die."

Seeing Death.... pertains to the subjective recognition, by someone 
who witnesses a death, of what is happening to the other who died. 
To see death it must *sink in* that the person so quickly went from 
being by your side to the other side.
It is what a person realises when they are in the presence of 
somebody that they recognise and distinguish. And then in an 
inextricable consecutive moment in the absence of that presence. 
There but not there, like the veil. At the moment of death, when 
death comes to take one of the two, there is a flash of realisation 
that death has come and the second surviving party can *see* it.
Though it may take a short while for that visualisation of the 
mystery to manifest in the person.