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| Mar 1, 2016 at 16:39 | comment | added | Bellerophon | @DarrelHoffman There is a flashback to the parents death in one of the later books (possibly Half-Blood Prince but I'm not sure). Harry sees his mother slump sideways but assumes she is still alive. Possibly the person has to witness a death and understand that the person has died to see Thestrals. | |
| Feb 29, 2016 at 22:50 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | @sds - But if that's the case, then anyone who was emotionally close to Cedric would then be affected, whether they witnessed his death or not, probably moreso than Harry as he'd only known him for about a year. Everyone mourned Cedric - he was a popular guy - but only Harry saw Thestrals because of it. In fact, in that case it wouldn't even matter if they were actually dead or merely irrecoverably gone, like Neville's parents, who are as good as dead, but we never heard of him being able to see Thestrals. | |
| Feb 29, 2016 at 21:28 | comment | added | sds | What matters for perceiving thesrals is not seeing death but experiencing irrecoverable loss. IOW, baby Harry could not comprehend death, so it is irrelevant whether he saw his parents murdered or not. Similarly, he did not mourn Quirrell, so it does not whether he passed our before or after he died. And, by the same token, seeing the act of Cedric's murder is less important that mourning it. | |
| Feb 29, 2016 at 20:43 | comment | added | TenthJustice | The real headscratcher is that Harry doesn't even see Cedric's death: "A blast of green light blazed through Harry's eyelids, and he heard something heavy fall to the ground beside him; the pain in his scar reached such a pitch that he retched, and then it diminished; terrified of what he was about to see, he opened his stinging eyes." | |
| Feb 29, 2016 at 20:42 | comment | added | TenthJustice | I believe when asked this, JK Rowling said that Harry never witnessed his parents' death, he was in his crib. | |
| Feb 29, 2016 at 15:22 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | The Thestrals were always a problem for me because Harry should've been able to see them right from the start, having witnessed his parents' murders while an infant. Mind you he was probably too young to remember, so maybe that doesn't count. (Also, maybe he was asleep or in another room? Never quite made clear.) | |
| Feb 29, 2016 at 4:40 | history | answered | TenthJustice | CC BY-SA 3.0 |