Hagrid seeing Thestrals

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No: HPFGUIDX 100091

Earendil wrote:
> We know from OotP that Hagrid can see Thestrals.
> So whose death did he see? His father's maybe? Any other suggestion, 
> anyone?

Hagrid was in the original Order of the Phoenix (he's in Moody's
picture), so it's very likely he saw death then.  In GoF, ch. 24
(after Rita Skeeter's article outing him as half-giant), Hagrid says
his father died "in me second year," which implies to me it happened
during term, so I'm guessing he didn't actually see that.

Unless, of course, he was peeping into the girls' bathroom when Myrtle
bought it.

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~sorry about that; couldn't resist...