Harry's home in Godric's Hollow, owls as pets?

[abigailnus]

No: HPFGUIDX 35836

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Heidi Tandy" <heidit at n...> wrote:
> Lennyb wrote:
 If so, is Hagrid telling 
> > Dumbledore the house was "almost destroyed" an error? 
> I don't see this as an inconsistency, and here's why. 
 
> I'm not saying that whatever happened to the Potters' house, it was in
> any way comparable to 9/11 - I'm just saying that the precision of
> coloquial language can't be held to a perfectly exact standard - there's
> subjectivity even in determining whether something was "destroyed" or
> "almost destroyed".

I think we can assume, despite the vaguaries of language, that however great the destruction was it wasn't complete, 
or it's doubtful that a 15-month-old baby would have survived it completely unscathed as he is when being delivered 
to the Durselys.  Also, since I doubt that Hagrid arrived the second Voldemort died and the house collapsed, the ruins 
would have had to provide some shelter from the elements.  We don't know exactly where Godric's Hollow is supposed 
to be apart from the fact that Hagrid flew over Bristol to get from there to Surrey, but wherever it is it would have 
been very cold in the middle of the night at the end of October - a baby might freeze to death if left outside in that 
kind of cold for too long.

Abigail