[HPforGrownups] OOP: Disappointing

[Christine Olson]

No: HPFGUIDX 66112

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The Thestrals:  When we first learn that the only people who
can see thestrals are those that can see death, I immediately started
to wonder why Harry can only see them after Cedric's death when he
saw his Mum die as a baby

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I fail to understand how folks continue to have a problem with Thestral 
thing.  Harry, I believe, was less than a year old when his mother was 
killed. Obviously he didn't remember it. Do you really think as a baby, he 
could comprehend his mothers death? Of course he couldn't. So when he saw 
Cedric killed, that was the first time he saw death and understood what it 
was.  In the Albert Hall thing JKR said it takes a while after witnessing 
death for you to get the ability to see them. Enough said

christine