newbie with questions

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<mrnmrswatters at ...> wrote:
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I have a few questions that I'm hoping somebody might be able to 
answer.
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montims:

There are answers to all of these on JKR's website:

Everyone has said to me that Harry saw people die before could see 
the Thestrals. Just to clear this up once and for all, this was not 
a mistake. I would be the first to say that I have made mistakes in 
the books, but this was not a mistake. I really thought this one 
through. Harry did not see his parents die. He was one year old and 
in a cot at the time. Although you never see that scene, I wrote it 
and then cut it. He didn't see it; he was too young to appreciate 
it. When you find out about the Thestrals, you find that you can see 
them only when you really understand death in a broader sense, when 
you really know what it means. Someone said that Harry saw Quirrell 
die, but that is not true. He was unconscious when Quirrell died, in 
Philosopher's Stone. He did not know until he came around that 
Quirrell had died when Voldemort left his body. Then you have 
Cedric. With Cedric, fair point. Harry had just seen Cedric die when 
he got back into the carriages to go back to Hogsmeade station.

You say that people cannot Apparate or Disapparate within Hogwarts 
and yet Dobby manages it, why is this?
House-elves are different from wizards; they have their own brand of 
magic, and the ability to appear and disappear within the castle is 
necessary to them if they are to go about their work unseen, as 
house-elves traditionally do.

Crookshanks, as anybody who has read Fantastic Beasts and Where to 
Find Them will have guessed, is half Kneazle.