Hagrid seeing Thestrals

[Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

No: HPFGUIDX 100114

| From: Littlekat10
| Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 11:56 AM
|
| I can't recall who said what about Hagrid's seeing Thestrals but
| this is my
| opinion on that subject.  Remember that in Chamber of Secrets Hagrid was
| sent to Azkaban.  I'm thinking that maybe he saw death while he was
| incarcerated there.  We don't hear a thing about what he went
| through while
| he was forced to be an inmate but we can theorize that he maybe saw some
| awful things.

[Lee responds]:

My dear friend for the past 30-something years, <Grin>
Point taken, but Hagrid had, from what I can interpret from the passages in
OOTP, had been working with thestrals for quite some time, and they've been
pulling the carriages to and from Hogwarts all this time, just unseen by
most.

So, Hagrid's death experience would have to happen way before COS for him to
be able to work with thestrals, IMHO.

Littlekat:

|  Also remember that as gamekeeper he would have had to see
| death because animals under his care could certainly have died.  I don't
| think that it matters whether it is an animal or a person or a
| giant, etc.,
| who dies.

[Lee]:
Interesting thought.  I'm sorta inclined to the thought that the death would
have to be of someone/thing for whom the witness had some sort of feeling.
I can't give a specific, but I would think that the process of the
acceptance of the death opens one up to seeing the thestrals.

Cheers,

Lee :-)

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