Dumbledore is Hedwig

snosageau snosageau at hotmail.com
Sun Jul 20 10:46:39 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 71817

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "logic_alley" 
<logic_alley at y...> wrote:
> 
> I seem to remember another time when Dumbledore called Hedwig "your 
> extraordinary owl" -- does anyone know where that is?
> 
> Because normally we're given the impression that Hedwig is doing 
> things that are ordinary owl behavior -- finding people and 
> deliverying mail.   Why is he calling her "extraordinary"?   Or am 
I 
> remembering that wrong?   
> 
> -- logic alley --


My take on the "extraordinary owl" comment was that it had more to do 
with her colouring. Most of the owls we hear about in the books are 
brown barn owls. Hedwig certainly stands out among them, which, in my 
understanding of Hagrid (who seems to like the flashier of beasts) is 
why she was chosen to be Harry's familiar. 

There has to be something going on with Hedwig though, I can't 
remember any other owls being described as being as caring of their 
owner as Hedwig is described, or even as having as much personality 
as she does - looking "reproachfully" at Harry when she is locked in 
her cage for the summer, when Harry tells her she'll have to go to 
the Weasley's for aunt marge's visit, when Harry won't let her eat 
her frog at the beginning of OotP... Pig is very enthusiastic, maybe 
owls just have thier own personalities though...
snos





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