Peck of Owls

[acciosirius]

No: HPFGUIDX 74867

I'm sorry if this has been discussed before, but I'm having a hard 
time keeping up with all of the posts. For some odd reason, my two 
young children feel that I should be feeding them and paying 
attention to them! ;-)

I can't honestly tell you what read I'm on of OoP, as I now tend to 
skip around to re-read certain sections. But something keeps 
bothering me every time I read it, and I don't know if I'm making 
too much of a small thing or not. So... I'd like to have other 
opinions on whether or not anyone else noticed this.

In Chapter 2, pg.35 (U.S.), I believe it's Vernon who says, "--a 
peck, I mean, pack of owls shooting in and out of my house and I 
won't have it, boy, I won't--". OK, why would he switch from saying 
the right phrase for a group of owls to the wrong phrase? I don't 
think that Vernon would have any ties to the WW, but does he know 
more than he's letting on? Or does he simply not want to seem to 
know about anything that has anything to do with Harry's world, 
including what a grouping of owls is called? I think it could be 
either, I just thought it was odd.

Thoughts? 

Jen