owl mail

[milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 6996

naama wrote:
> I have a little question regarding the hunderd owls that swoop into 
> the dining room every morning: Why do all these owls arrive at 
once? 
> After all, people get owl mail every hour of the day and night 
> anyway. 
> I thought that maybe families that don't have owls of their own 
would 
> send an owl in the morning from the post office. But that doesn't 
> make sense, because the owls come from all over the place and it 
> would take them different amounts of time to reach Hogwarts. [do 
you 
> say that - 'differnt amounts of time'? I sometimes have trouble 
with 
> colloquialisms.]
> 
> Naama

Perhaps morning is the scheduled time for mail at Hogwarts. It would 
be rather inconvenient if owls swooped in at any time of day to 
deliver a package or letter (doubt Snape would tolerate an owl 
delivery in the middle of Potions)

:-) Milz