newbie with questions - Cedric

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 159257

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hickengruendler"
<hickengruendler at ...> wrote:

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>  The biggest problem is with Cedric Diggory's death. Harry should 
> have seen the Thestrals at the end of GoF, when he left Hogwarts for 
> the summer holidays. JKR said a day or so after the release of 
> Order, that the death has to sink in, for the Thestrals to be 
> visible. Harry had time to come to terms with it in the holidays, 
> while prior to this too much happened for him to register what it 
> means. I find this a plausible explanation, and I am convinced that 
> it wasn't made up on the stop, but that JKR did think this through.


zanooda:

I've read this interview, but didn't buy JKR's explanation. It sounds
reasonable maybe, but she didn't have to mention the carriges at all
in the end of GoF. It is the only book where she for some reason
describes how the kids get to the station at the end of the year. I
mean, we know that they get there in the carriges (first years by
boats), but it is never actually shown. If she only kept it this way
in GoF, there wouldn't be any controversy.

I agree with you that JKR didn't invent this explanation right there
during the interview, but I think she thought of it after GoF was out,
when she noticed herself or someone told her, but it was too late to
change anything.

I'm not criticizing the way she writes her books and the way she
explains them, I love them anyway. It's just I don't believe she
really thought this one through :-)