[HPforGrownups] Re: Thestrals and seeing death (was: Deaths at Hogwarts?)

[Fred Uloth]

No: HPFGUIDX 81052

At 01:50 PM 9/16/2003, president0084 wrote:
><snip>But here is the kicker, in 4th year there is no reason
>why he shouldn't have seen them unless it didn't really count if he
>was an infant with not been able to remember or understand what was
>happening.
>
>So Harry's been able to see the thestrals happened by either the
>event of the 3rd task or seeing the memory of his mother dieing.

You've covered all their arrivals, but what about departures? He should 
have seen them at the end of book four after they said bye to Krum and 
Fluer. What is the anti-Flint argument there? Harry hadn't come to terms 
with the death? He was overcome by Fluer's veela magic? As shocked as he 
was to see them in OoP I can't believe he wouldn't have noticed them at the 
end of GoF.

Jason