[the_old_crowd] Re: Hagrid Flew

[ewe2]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:56:19 -0000, annemehr <annemehr at ...> wrote:

> --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, ewe2 <ewetoo at g...> wrote:
> > How many, I wonder, asked themselves, "when did Hagrid first see a
> > thestral?" Was it his father's death? It may be a point of some
> > importance. In any case, it was with some disbelief that I found that
> > noone has even looked at Hagrid's connections with thestrals on the
> > List.
> 
> They have on The Big Kahuna...not only that Hagrid flew one to the hut
> on the rock (though I think the idea he flew Sirius' motorcycle there
> is  more popular), but that Dumbledore flew one to the Ministry back
> in PS when HRH were about to go after the Stone.

The Big Kahuna? Unless it was relatively recent, HPforGrownups came up
blank for me (and I grepped half of the archives for it). There was a
big thread roughly between #43800-43900 and the motorcycle theory was
debunked. Of course they couldn't make the thestral connection back
then.
 
> That Dumbldore-flying-to-the-ministry thing is still fishy, even with
> thestrals to sweeten the ride.  It still seems so much simpler and
> quicker to walk out the gates and apparate.

But as Hagrid says, it's a long way to Apparate...
 
> I wonder if Voldemort is afraid of Thestrals?

He'd have no trouble seeing them, OR WOULD HE?

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