In Book 3 when Harry takes the stage coach up to Hogwarts he doesn't see the beasts pulling it. (You know those ones you can only see if you've seen death?) But in Book 5, only after seeing Cedric die he can.
Then put that together with JK Rowling saying that something massive is going to happen with Lily in book 7.
Is Lily really dead?
2007-07-10 20:27:17 · 10 answers · asked by Skaggy says: 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
No, Harry didn't see Lily's death. Cedric is the first person he's actually seen die. He remembers a green light and hearing his parent's die, but he didn't see them die. And he was unconcious when Quirrell died. Rowling answered this question on her website
"Why could Harry see the Thestrals 'Order of the Phoenix'?
Shouldn't he have been able to see them much earlier, because he saw his parents/Quirrell/Cedric die?
I’ve been asked this a lot. Harry didn’t see his parents die. He was in his cot at the time (he was just over a year old) and, as I say in ‘Philosopher’s Stone’, all he saw was a flash of green light. He didn’t see Quirrell’s death, either. Harry had passed out before Quirrell died and was only told about it by Dumbledore in the last chapter.
He did, however, witness the murder of Cedric, and it is this that makes him able to see the Thestrals at last. Why couldn’t he see the Thestrals on his trip back to the train station? Well, I didn’t want to start a new mystery, which would not be resolved for a long time, at the very end of the fourth book. I decided, therefore, that until Harry is over the first shock, and really feels what death means (ie, when he fully appreciates that Cedric is gone forever and that he can never come back, which takes time, whatever age you are) he would not be able to see the Thestrals. After two months away from school during which he has dwelled endlessly on his memories of the murder and had nightmares about it, the Thestrals have taken shape and form and he can see them quite clearly."
2007-07-10 20:36:50 · answer #1 · answered by knight1192a 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Good question. I wondered myself why he couldn't see the Thestrals before Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. He was there when Lily Potter died because she was blocking Voldemort. Maybe he couldn't see the Thestrals because he was just a baby when he saw his mother die and he didn't have that memory.
2007-07-10 20:32:43 · answer #2 · answered by julygirl75038 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes he did see Lily die but he was too young to understand what he saw that is why he could not see the thestrals until he saw Cedric die.
Yes I am sure Lily is dead.
2007-07-11 03:19:28 · answer #3 · answered by Can music save your mortal soul? 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Apparently not, if Cedric was his first death witness. Maybe it works where you have to comprehend what you're seeing. As a baby Harry wouldn't understand what he was watching.
2016-05-19 03:37:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a way yes. He didn't actually witness it but whenever the dementors get too close he is able to hear and see flashes of the event
2007-07-11 02:04:27 · answer #5 · answered by purpleCat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question is pretty much impossible to answer, not only because it makes no sense, but because we cant predict the future.
2007-07-10 20:29:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
he did but he was too young to remember any visual images
2007-07-10 20:32:46 · answer #7 · answered by Oliver Hanson 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That was batman! And Harry Potter is of the devil.
2007-07-10 20:36:15 · answer #8 · answered by TexasBound 1 · 0⤊ 5⤋
yep
2007-07-10 20:29:02 · answer #9 · answered by Hoosyadaddy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think so
2007-07-10 20:30:16 · answer #10 · answered by ~ ANGEL ~ 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋