[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry shouldn't see Thestrals

[charme]

No: HPFGUIDX 122037


> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arynnoctavia"
> <arynnoctavia at y...> wrote:
>> It says in book 5 that Harry can see the Thestrals because he saw
>> Cedric die, but if you look in book 4 that isn't true.
>> [...]
>> While down on the ground he hears "Kill the spare" A blast of green
>> light blazes through his eyelids, and he hears something heavy fall
>> beside him.
>
> So he witnessed Cedric dying, in a manner of speaking. He heard him
> dying, though perhaps he didn't *see* him. He may not be an
> eye-witness, but certainly an "ear-witness" (if there's such a word).
> Besides, Harry might have been able still to reckognize shapes so he
> saw him in some way.
>

Harry might not have seen him "die", but Harry did see Cedric dead. GoF:

"Cedric was lying spread-eagled on the ground beside him.  He was dead.

For a second that contained an eternity, Harry stared into Cedric's face, at 
his open gray

eyes, blank and expressionless as the windows of a deserted house, at his 
half-open mouth,

which looked slightly surprised"

charme