There was a thestral there? Penelope couldn't see it, but that was probably a good thing. The closest thing to a person dying that she had ever seen was when her dog killed a bird.

Winged horses. What did she know about winged horses? Not much, but Penelope remembered at least one breed of winged horse. "Professor, one breed of winged horse is the A- Ae- Aeth- Aetheio- Aethon- Aethonan. Aethonan." She could kind of pronounce it. At least she had been able to say it, even if it did take her a few tries to get it right. Penelope had a lot of questions about thestrals, but most of them had already been asked. "Can you use a placement charm to put a bridle on a thestral? Are placement charms used to attach the thestrals to the carriages that bring the students to the school?"