postal possibilities,Wizarding conservation

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 32911

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:

>> Sirius is constantly expressing concern that his mail might be 
intercepted, but so far as we've seen all owls have always 
reached their addressee unhindered. << 

Not so. Dobby  brandishes a summer's worth of letters he 
intercepted at the beginning of CoS. And  Vernon Dursley was 
quite handy at coming between Harry and his owls. Harry's 
Hogwarts letter had to be hand delivered by Hagrid.


> 
> My other musing is that Potions, requiring (as it does) the body 
parts of obscure magical and non-magical creatures, must 
surely be vulnerable to swings of the eco-system in a way other 
magical disciplines would not.  What if the Boomslang were to 
become extinct?  The price of Polyjuice manufacture would 
skyrocket, subterfuges like Barty Junior's would become very 
difficult, and there might be a resurgence in the illegal use of the 
Imperio charm!<<

Thus the wizards' great interest in setting aside nature preserves  
long before the Muggle world became interested in such things.

Pippin