I thought about that at the end of Goblet, because I have known from the word go what was drawing the carriages. ![]() Harry had just seen Cedric die when he got back into the carriages to go back to Hogsmeade station. He did not know until he came around that Quirrell had died when Voldemort left his body. He was unconscious when Quirrell died, in Philosopher’s Stone. Someone said that Harry saw Quirrell die, but that is not true. When you find out about the Thestrals, you find that you can see them only when you really understand death in a broader sense, when you really know what it means. He didn’t see it he was too young to appreciate it. Although you never see that scene, I wrote it and then cut it. He was one year old and in a cot at the time. ![]() I would be the first to say that I have made mistakes in the books, but this was not a mistake. Just to clear this up once and for all, this was not a mistake. The letters that I’ve had about the Thestrals! Everyone has said to me that Harry saw people die before he could see the Thestrals. However, some fans have pointed out that since Cedric died during the Triwizard Tournament, it seems like Harry should have been able to see the Thestrals when the carriages transported him to Hogsmeade station at the end of The Goblet of Fire.īut in a 2004 interview at the Edinburgh Book Festival, Rowling maintained that this wasn’t an error. “They can only be seen by people who’ve seen death,” she tells him. Luna Lovegood - who can also see them - then explains that the Thestrals are now visible to him because he witnessed Cedric Diggory die. When Harry arrives at Hogwarts for his fifth year in The Order of the Phoenix, he realizes that the school’s carriages aren’t drawn by magic, but rather a flock of Thestrals. ![]() “Maybe it was an unspoken word in the Weasley’s family.” The case of the missing Thestrals “Maybe it’s a boo in the family that no one talks of. However, in a June interview with The Huffington Post, Oliver Phelps, who played George in the movies, provided a (somewhat jokey) answer to this conundrum. Considering Fred and George Weasley nicked the Marauder’s Map from Filch during their first year at Hogwarts, it seems strange that they never noticed Peter Pettigrew - who was still posing as Scabbers the rat - sleeping in Ron’s bed every night once their younger brother arrived at school.
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