OOP: thestrals

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No: HPFGUIDX 64771

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Shaun Hately" <drednort at a...> 
wrote:
> May have already been asked - if so, I haven't seen it.
> 
> Rereading late last night, I noticed something (which I meant to 
check again this 
> morning in case, I'd missed something, but my book has 
been 'borrowed'). So I am 
> having to do this from memory.
> 
> In the Magical Creatures lesson, with the Thestrals, Hagrid asks 
who can see them. 
> Harry indicates he can, so does Neville.
> 
> Does it say in the text who else can see them? Because as they are 
leaving the lesson, 
> either Ron or Hermione mentions there were three people in the 
class who could see 
> the Thestrals. And I only noticed two mentioned in the text. Now, 
I may just have missed 
> it - it was 2am - but the way I remember it being written seemed 
suspicious - as if JKR 
> wanted to get the fact that three people had seen them on the 
record - without us 
> noticing (-8.
> 
> Who else in the class has seen death?


It was just a Slytherin boy.. pg. 445 in the US edition:

"There were only two other people who seemed to be able to see them: 
a stringy Slytherin boy standing just behind Goyle was watching the 
horse eating with an expression of great distaste on his face, and 
Neville, whose eyes were following the swishing progress of the long 
black tail."