[HPforGrownups] Re: OoP: Thestrals

[alex fox]

No: HPFGUIDX 65870

I take anything that JKR herself says as "canon" so here goes... She said on the live feed from Royal Albert Hall that the death had to have time to "sink in", and that is why Harry didn't see the Thestrals at the end of GOF. Possably an excuse for a FLINT, but SHE said it, so it is law.
 
Alex Fox 

medeia_no <medeia_no at yahoo.no> wrote:
Except if Harry can see thestrals because of having witnessed 
Cedric's death, why didn't he see them when leaving school last term? 

Varana





--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jesta Hijinx" 
<jestahijinx at h...> wrote:
> >On that note, Neville could see the thestrals because
> > >he saw his grandfather die, I'm assuming when he was
> > >very young.  If that's true, then Harry witnessed at
> > >least his mother's death when he was a baby, so how
> > >come he couldn't see the thestral's then?
> > >
> > >Me:
> > >Well, Neville could've been older than Harry. Enough to
> comprehend
> > >everything and understand what was happening. Harry wasn't
> exactly at a
> > >point to do so.
> > >
> > >--Taryn
> > >
> >I thought that Harry could see the thestrals now because of
> witnessing
> >Cedric's death.
> >
> >I don't think we're shown in the books what Harry's POV was.  The
> movie
> >dramatizes Lily's death as happening in front of Harry.
> >
> >Felinia
> 
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