Question?

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>Craig writes:
>Okay, at the end of GOF Harry Potter gets into the horseless 
>carriages that take him and the other students to the train.  Now in 
>the begininng of Order of The Phoenix he sees Thesterals pulling the 
>carriages.  It's explained to him that he sees them because he 
>witnessed someone dying.  Now why did he not see them at the end of 
>GOF?  He had already seen Cedric die, he should of seen them then, 
>right?

I finished reading GoF last night and this was bugging me, also.  I 
kept waiting for him to notice the thestrels.  The realistic answer 
to this is: JKR didn't think of the thestrels until she was writing 
book five.  The fantastical answer to this is:  It doesn't say 
Harry "didn't" see the thestrels.  Therefore, I decided he DID notice 
the thestrels, he was just so out of it and depressed they didn't 
register as an oddity until much later.  Much much later.  A whole 
lot later.  Does anyone else have a better fantastical answer?  
Please?

Nicky Joe