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Originally Posted by Marie
As a side note...I feel like we give J. K. Rowling too much credit. I mean it has again and again been repeated that he remembers the flash of light and heard his mom screen. Luna can see them (and I don't believe that she witnessed her mother's death), and Neville can see them when his parents aren't even dead. J. K. just slipped up a little on this one. That's cool, but it surprises me that she can pull any explanation out of her azz, and folks are like "Oh ok...genius how you planned it that way."
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Umm, no, she's assuming you actually read the books and can reason a little.
Seeing a flash of green light and hearing his mom scream =/=
seeing her die.
Luna never says one way or the other whether she actually saw her mother die, although her comment that "it was rather horrible" can give rise to the inference she saw it. Since that scene in the book comes
after the scene where it's explained that "the only people who can see thestrals are people who have seen death" (p. 446, US hardback edition), you're reaching to find some inconsistency and afterthought explanation.
As for Neville:
Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 21 ("The Eye of the Snake") (p. 449, US hardback edition):
"You can see the thestrals, Longbotton, can you?" [Umbridge] said.
Neville nodded.
"Whom did you see die?" she asked, her tone indifferent.
"My . . . grandad," said Neville.
Maybe she's giving some readers too much credit.
