favorite non-humans

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: favorite non-humans
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6274] Re: favorite non-humans
Date: 8/9/00 12:55 am  (ET)

> The owls are the best! I love Hedwig--she's so temperamental. Pigwidgeon
is funny and has a cool name.

There must be more than we know about Pigwidgeon. Why was he so eager to
take the job when Sirius was looking for an owl, and so eager to stay
with Ron? Before GoF came out, some people were suggesting that Pig
was Lupin finally in Animagus form, hiding out and watching over Harry,
but Lupin didn't/wouldn't spend his energy racing around like a mad thing.

I checked some on-line dictionaries and found that 'Pigwidgeon' means
'something small and petty', which is an accurate description: Ginny
named him well.

One of the dictionaries added that Dryden used this name for a
fairy. If Ginny had read Dryden in her primary school Language Arts
(which was called English in my day), it was a great deal better
than mine! I think there is a species of owl named fairy owl but
it is Too Small to be Pig -- only one inch tall or something like
that. I am Web searching to learn about fairy owls, but so far all I
have found is an Elf Owl that might possibly be Pigwidgeon's species:
http://www.owlinstitute.org/owls/elf.html

IIRC we have not yet encountered a fairy as a magical being in HP. Could
Pigwidgeon be a fairy in disguise?