[HPforGrownups] Digest Number 916

[Lotte Douze]

No: HPFGUIDX 19585


> Vicky:  On a totally unrelated topic, I wonder how owls know where to deliver letters. I don't recall people specifically telling them who to give letters to. 

I was wondering about that too. Because how is Hedwig able to find 
Sirius when he is in hiding?

> Also, I've noticed animals can understand human speech in the Potter world. Buckbeak understood Malfoy when he called him a brute, and Hedwig is very expressive of her rage toward Harry when she comes back from her long journey delivering Sirius's letter, only to find him ungrateful. Any thoughts?
> 
Well, maybe this is just animal instinct? I know my cats feel when I'm 
in a bad mood. I think animals are very sensitive, certainly 
hippogriffs, which have to be treated with respect. Then they have to be 
sensitive to feel that respect. I think that's why it seems that the 
understand human speech.

Lotte