Timeline for Why COULD Harry see Thestrals following Cedric Diggory's death?
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| Mar 14, 2012 at 3:45 | vote | accept | Slytherincess | ||
| Jan 13, 2012 at 23:58 | comment | added | HorusKol | "seeing death" isn't the necessarily same as "seeing a death" - of course, it's just semantics, and JKR could just be pulling herself out of the coals using said semantics - but I never really saw this as a plot-hole, and still don't | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 21:31 | comment | added | Chad | @Slytherincess - I was not suggesting you need to relax. I was simply relating how I try to deal with it because I have similar issues with her writing style. I think it is a good and valid question. I think her explanation is udder crap... But it is still a compelling series enjoyable by all ages as you said. | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 21:22 | comment | added | Slytherincess | @Chad -- I understand what you're saying (although I believe the books are for all ages), but I thought the purpose of SE was to ask the questions that puzzle us? The quote from JKR telling us she deliberately decided on what feels like a plot hole to this reader is certainly a more useful answer than suggesting there is tons of subtext to the word "see." The purpose of this forum is to ask these kind of questions -- I don't think my question is silly, so I'm not sure where the "Relax, it's just a kids' book; forget about it" POV is coming from. I know what kind of books they are :) | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 18:23 | comment | added | Chad | @Slytherincess - You can not parse JKR's words. As she admitted in the quote above she made a mistake. Fortunately for her its her world so she changed the way it works. Its a childrens book, granted one wildly popular with adults too, but while reading I tried to remember it was a childrens book and let little things go... I would pretend that it worked too :p | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 14:40 | comment | added | Martha | @Slytherincess, I have a blind friend who will, as a matter of course and without a trace of irony, use expressions such as "nice to see you again". The word see has many meanings, some of which have nothing to do with eyes. | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 8:35 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | @Slytherincess - the word "seeing" may be used as a stand-in for more generic "witness", which doesn't necessarily have to be visually processed. | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 5:38 | comment | added | Slytherincess | @dianod -- The books are quite explicit in using the word "seeing" death as a required part of the equation to be able to see Thestrals. Really internalising the death is a separate part of the equation, at least how I read it. :) | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 5:08 | history | answered | dlanod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |