When Moody (Barty Crouch J.r) teaches the class the unforgivable curses lesson, he kills the spider at the end. If the students saw him die, how is it that the next year they couldn't see the thestrals?
When Moody (Barty Crouch J.r) teaches the class the unforgivable curses lesson, he kills the spider at the end. If the students saw him die, how is it that the next year they couldn't see the thestrals?
Guess it only works for human deaths for some reason
Probably
I think you have to truly understand and be affected by the death for you to be able to see the Thestrals.
I think it has to sink in. Pretty much everyone has killed a spider or a fly or something like that before but that didn't affect them. Similarly, the death of Lily Potter didn't make Harry see Thestrals because it didn't leave enough of an impact (only the consequences of her death). It has to mean something.
What I'm far more curious about is how "Moody" was allowed to use the unforgivable curses in front of a bunch of 14 year olds.
Even if there was a way to go to the ministry and say "yo, I'll teach that class these curses and have to demonstrate, don't come after me", someone at the ministry would've had to monitor that and the ministry was firmly against showing those curses to such young students.
^ It's not confirmed whether you can track the Unforgivable Curses, and seeing as Barty Crouch Jr was a death eater, I don't really think he cared whether Dumbledore or the Ministry gave him permission.
Probably the same reason everyone whose ever eaten a burger can't see thestrals. Its just a spider bruh
Im pretty sure it’s only if you see a person for not an animal.
@IiBrightNight I was just deflecting the answer I regularly get when I ask that question. Also as a deatheater ing eneral, he wouldn't care but he was on a mission and to blow it would've been devistating for the plan to bring Voldy back, so my guess is that he'd want to do anything possible to avoid being caught
^ True. I guess the JKR needed a way to show Harry the Unforgivable Curses, and made a semi-plot hole lol
What do you think?