thestrals
Grief reveals them
Thestrals are fictional winged horses in the Harry Potter series, visible only to those who have witnessed death.
Skeletal and black, they pull the carriages at Hogwarts but appear to move by themselves to students who cannot see them.
The term sometimes extends figuratively to shared experiences visible only to those who've been through similar hardship.
Of or like bones
- wingedHaving flight appendages
- horsesLarge domesticated hoofed mammals
- invisibleCannot be seen
- deathCessation of life
bat-wings · reptilian · fanged · carnivorous · equine · leathery · ghostly · spectral
Lasting psychological wound
- witnessedSaw firsthand
- mortalityState of eventual death
- lossBeing without something
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
bereavement · experience · perception · unseen · hidden · revealed · understanding · innocence
Wheeled vehicles for passengers
- LunaRoman moon deity
- ministryClergy's work or state department
- flightAerial journey by aircraft
- herdGrazing animals together
Hagrid · meat · gamekeeper · paddock · dangerous · misunderstood · loyal · intelligent
State of eventual death
- acceptanceConsent to receive
- outsiderOne excluded from group
- stigmaMark of dishonor
- omenProphetic indicator
macabre · beautiful · feared · misunderstood · darkness · light · duality · transformation
skeletal
Of or like bones
death · bat-wings · reptilian · fanged · carnivorous · equine · leathery · ghostly · spectral · dragonish
trauma
Lasting psychological wound
grief · bereavement · experience · perception · unseen · hidden · revealed · understanding · innocence · awareness
carriages
Wheeled vehicles for passengers
Hagrid · herd · meat · gamekeeper · paddock · dangerous · misunderstood · loyal · intelligent · tamed
mortality
State of eventual death
- acceptanceConsent to receive
- outsiderOne excluded from group
- stigmaMark of dishonor
omen · macabre · beautiful · feared · misunderstood · darkness · light · duality · transformation · resilience