“So how was your second year? Did you like the carriages?” Dimitri asked, when they got to Burton Cottage.

“Yeah it was good! Quidditch is SO much fun, Dima, wow. And they’re good. Except it’s kind of freaky being pulled along by nothing,” she said.
Both her brother and her father looked at her and explained that no, in fact, they weren’t pulled along by nothing. “You feel the pulling, don’t you? As if it felt like it was being pulled by a horse,” Dimitri asked.
“Yes.”

“It’s called a Thestral,” said Alexander.
“A what?” said Lisabel and Zhenya.