'The Coaches Were No Longer Horseless'

For this contest I have recreated the scene in Harry's fifth year. He goes to Hogwarts like before, but something has changed. For the first time since starting at Hogwarts, the horseless carriages are no longer horseless. In it's place are horselike animals, later identified as thestrals.

I was always fascinated by the amazing creatures in the Wizarding World, and thought it very interesting to try and portray the thestral as a magnificent but eerie creature. My inspiration came out of the books, but I also gave it my own spin.

Beside the thestral I made Harry looking more or less shocked, and Luna who tells him 'Don't worry, you're just as sane as I am' (Harry Potter and the Order of The Phoenix, chapter ten). Harry is not sure what to think of that.

(Title: Harry Potter and the Order of The Phoenix, chapter ten)