Thestrals Again

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 145681

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lagattalucianese" <katmac at k...>
wrote:
>
> La Gatta Lucianese:
> 
> Odd, in GoF.37, even though he has witnessed Cedric Diggory's
> death, ...edited... It isn't until OotF that Harry is actually
> able to see the thestrals.
> 
> So, my question is, does it take a while for thestral-seeing to
> set in, or did JKR drop a byte in there somewhere? ;D
>

bboyminn:

Others have already answered you questions with quotes from JKR, but I
want to add a side note.

The 5 Stages of Grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance

At the end of GoF, Harry is still in a state of shock and very much in
the denial stage of grieving. Yes, he knows it happened, but every
subconsious fiber of his being is trying to deny it, to hope it was a
dream or a mistake or a joke or anything but reality; even though as I
say, consciously he does know it is reality. What the brain knows, the
heart and soul don't alway know. 

Notice the second stage ANGER, and how do we find Harry a few weeks
later? Angry at the world, angry at everyone and everything that even
remotely gives him an excuse to be angry. Frequently the anger of
grieving is again subconscious, and is directed at everything but the
one place where it really belongs. 

This is especially true in young people, they feel and they feel very
deeply, but they rarely recognise why, and they rarely direct that
anger where it truly belongs. As a consequence of not recognising the
source and direction of that anger, they lash out at those closest to
them, whether friends, schoolmate, people walking down the street, or
society in general. As Phineas Nigellus might say, teens have a
tendency to feel tragically misunderstood.

So, yes, it takes time to process death and make sense out of it. It
takes time to accept the very thing you know to be true. And until
that time has passed, you haven't accepted death into your heart and
soul. Once that happens, you can see the Therstrals.

Just passing it along.

Steve/bboyminn