OOP: Psychoanalyzed!Harry, Metathinking MWPP, what Neville sees (kinda long)

[katerpillar99]

No: HPFGUIDX 63828

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Terry James" 
<terryljames at h...> wrote:
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> Moving on again--Neville and the thestrals.  Someone posted that 
during
> SS Neville was crying about the monsters in the forest that no one
> else could see.  (Don't remember that--must go re-read!)  Why 
doesn't
> Neville say anything to anyone about them as they're pulling the
> carriages?  I can see why Luna doesn't, she doesn't seem to
> bother communicating information to others unless they ask for it.
> Does Neville not realize that no one else can see them?  But surely
> he hears people commenting on the horseless carriages; why doesn't 
he
> ask questions then?
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> And a related question, if he saw them pulling the carriages, why 
is he
> crying about them being in the forest?

I remember what people are saying about him crying, but I don't 
recall the exact place. But wherever it is, as long as it is in SS, I 
don't think the first-years haven't seen the "horseless" carriages 
yet-- they are brought across the lake in boats. He would then know 
(after crying about the monsters flying over the forest) that no one 
else could see them and may have just decided not to mention them 
pulling the carriages. Once seeing them with the carriages, he also 
may have decided that they were nothing to be scared of.

Just a thought-
Katerpillar