I don’t think you did and neither was there anything in canon about this. Unicorns are about as sentient as any other magical animal. The taboo of killing unicorns stems from the bad effects it has, rather than the sentience of the creatures.
Well, the point is that “magical animals” have very varrying degrees of sentience—some, like acromantula are fully sentient, some like phoenix are half-sentient, the status of unicorn can’t be established without some inquiry.
I don’t think you did and neither was there anything in canon about this. Unicorns are about as sentient as any other magical animal. The taboo of killing unicorns stems from the bad effects it has, rather than the sentience of the creatures.
Well, the point is that “magical animals” have very varrying degrees of sentience—some, like acromantula are fully sentient, some like phoenix are half-sentient, the status of unicorn can’t be established without some inquiry.