Owl magic

[jll3sonex at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 22324

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Rita wrote:
> 
> 
> > I wish I knew whether it is possible for an
> > Animagus to become a magical animal, or only a normal animal. Owls
> > appear to have Owl Magic to deliver mail; does that make them 
> magical
> > animals?
> 
> I have two theories, both, I think, equally supported by the books:
> 
> (1) the owls in HP are unusual in that they understand human 
language 
> and can track someone down, apparently anywhere, even if the sender 
> doesn't know where he/she is.  I.e. they are magical owls, which 
> resemble, but aren't the same as, Muggle snowy and tawny and barn 
> owls.
> 
> (2) the owls in HP are just like any owls, and the only reason we 
> Muggles can't hail an owl and use it to send our post is that *we* 
> aren't magical.  If I just had the ineffable authority of a witch, 
I 
> could tell an owl, "take this to Rita, would you, please?" and he 
> would.  Not without giving me an irked stare at being required to 
> cross the country to deliver something I could easily have sent by 
> e-mail, of course.
> 
> Amy Z

FWIW, before I went on my AF Reserve duty this year I found an Owl 
rubber stamp at a local craft store.  Letters I sent home that I 
stamped an Owl in the return address got delivered the next day.  (In 
the mailbox for the 5:30 pickup from Warner Robins, GA to Marietta, 
GA.)  Letters that didn't have it took two.

Owl magic works! ;)

"Easy way to speed the post?
Give everyone an owl.
Though the mailman may dislike it,
He can just go howl..."

Jerry