[HPforGrownups] Bungy the budgie

[alex fox]

No: HPFGUIDX 71716

A budgie is a parakeet! Lovely litle birds!
 
Alex Fox

Silver Stag <prongs at marauders-map.net> wrote:
I'm sorry. What's a budgerigar?
Silver Stag
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "lucilaperezlascano" <lucilaperezlascano at yahoo.com>
To: <HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 6:41 PM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Bungy the budgie


Hi, my name is Lucila, I'm an Argentinian 22 year old girl, and this
is my first post.

I was wondering if any of you thought that Bungy, the water-skiing
budgie, could actually be an animagus.

I don't know what this could mean in future books, but I'll tell you
what made me suspicious:

1- it first comes up on page 9 OoP (UK edition) when Harry listens
the newsreader's voice:

"-and finally, Bungy the budgie has found a novel way of keeping cool
this summer. Bungy, who lives at the Five Feathers in Barnsley, has
learned to water ski! Mary Dorkins went to find out more."

-- so, we are told a budgerigar has learnt to water ski, which at
least to me is weird; and JK bothers to tell us were it lives.

2- The fact is stressed by Harry's thoughts:

"If they had reached water-skiing budgerigars, there would be
nothing
else worth hearing."

3- We are reminded of it later, on page 15 (OoP - UK ed):

"And his reward was to be stuck in Little Whinging for four solid
weeks, completely cut off from the magical world, reduced to
squatting among dying begonias so that he could hear about water-
skiing budgerigars!"

I also think it might have something to do with Benjy Fenwick; Moody,
while showing Harry the photo, says: "he copped it too, we only
ever
found bits of him" (p.158 OoP UK ed.)
"Benjy" sounds very similar to "Bungy". but somehow,
I don't believe
JK would use the same trick she used with Peter Petigrew/Scabbers.
Perhaps this time it's not an animagus, but a wizard that has
been
transfigured by someone else (like Crouch-Moody did to Draco).
and
then he couldn't go back to normal (or maybe he didn't want
to).

I'd like to know what you think about it.

Lucila.





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