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Voldemort was flying like smoke on the wind, without broomstick or thestral to hold him, his snake-like ace gleaming out of the blackness, his white fingers raising his wand again –
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Around him brooms were soaring upward too; the long black tail of a thestral flicked past.
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007
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Voldemort was flying like smoke on the wind, without broomstick or thestral to hold him, his snake-like face gleaming out of the blackness, his white fingers raising his wand again –
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007
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As he crossed the yard, the great skeletal thestral looked up – rustled its enormous batlike wings, then resumed its grazing.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007
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A thestral had just soared into sight and landed a few feet from them.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007
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On every side broomsticks were leaping into hands; Hermione had already been helped up onto a great black thestral by Kingsley, Fleur onto the other by Bill.
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007
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Voldemort was flying like smoke on the wind, without broomstick or thestral to hold him, his snake-like face gleaming out of the blackness, his white fingers raising his wand again -
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007
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A thestral had just soared into sight and landed a few feet from them.
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007
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A metal heart was banging outside his chest, and now he was flying, flying with triumph in his heart, without need of broomstick or thestral ...
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007
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"Miss Granger with Kingsley, again by thestral " -
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007
arby commented on the word thestral
Thestrals are large winged horses in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling. They are introduced in Order of the Phoenix.
Thestrals are the most elusive and least horse-like breed of magical horse. They have earned an undeserved reputation as omens of evil. They are visible only to those who have witnessed and accepted a death, and their appearance is skeletal, fleshless. They are described in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as having "blank, white, shining eyes," a "dragonish face", "long, black manes", "great leathery wings", and the "skeletal body of a great, black, winged horse".
July 13, 2007