CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 34, "The Department of Mysteries"

[Eileen Forster Keck]

No: HPFGUIDX 120275


Amdorn asks:
> 4)  When riding the Thestrals to the Ministry of 
> Magic, could the riders be seen?  Can only people 
> who see thestrals normally be able to see the 
> riders during flight?

I think a number of people have wondered this. After
some thought I suspect that anything that comes into
contact with a Thestral gains some of its properties;
after all, no one comments on apparently empty
harnesses being held up in front of the carriages.

So the harnesses become invisible when they come into
contact with the Thestrals...in that case, perhaps a
rider would, too.

Eileen

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