Seeing Thestrals

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 171719

> TKJ :
> Ok so we know Harry, Luna, and Neville can see them. Can someone
> refresh my memory and let me know if we were ever told why Neville can
> see them? (Yes, I know you have to have seen death to see them...were
> we told who Neville saw die?)

Mike:
In the scene where Hagrid introduces the Thestrals. Umbridge, doing her 
inspection of Hagrid asks Neville something like, 

"You can see Thestrals too, Longbottom? Whom did you see die?'

Neville answered his Grandfather - presumedly his "Gran's" late hubby.

Check OotP around page 450, US edition.