[HPforGrownups] Owl to Arabella?

[Kathryn Wolber]

No: HPFGUIDX 50483


--- "btk6y <btk6y at virginia.edu>" <btk6y at virginia.edu>
wrote:
> In the first few pages of SS, Vernon is picking his
> "most boring 
> tie" for work and Petunia wrestles a screaming
> Dudley into his high 
> chair.  Then:
> 
> "None of them noticed a large, tawny owl flutter
> past the window."
> 
> This may (probably has) been discussed, but where is
> this owl going 
> that it flutters past a window on Privet Drive? 
> Perhaps to Arabella 
> Figg's house to let her know that Harry will be
> coming to town and 
> she will be his guardian?  But why would Ms. Figg
> already be there?  
> Did Dumbledore anticipate this and set her up there
> or was she 
> always assigned to hang around the Dursleys'?  Or
> was it going to 
> someone else?  
> 
> There is another quick mention of owls:
> 
> "...the cat on the wall outside showed no signs of
> sleepiness... it 
> didn't so much quiver when a car door slammed on the
> next street, 
> nor when two owls swooped overhead."
> 
> This reference may not be for Ms. Figg, perhaps
> these owls just 
> swooped overhead on their way to some other
> destination.  But I find 
> it difficult to believe that the first owl would
> have gotten down to 
> window level if it wasn't delivering a message to
> somewhere on 
> Privet Drive- the question is who?
> 
> Bobby
> 
This theory is possible, but, Arabella Figg doesn't
live on Privet Drive, she lives 2 streets (blocks)
over from the Dursleys.

~Kathryn


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