Evil owls!

[psychic_serpent]

No: HPFGUIDX 56733

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Paul Smith, unfortunately." 
<suzie_t666 at h...> wrote:
> How many other people have noticed that the only times eagle owls 
> appear in the books are with or connected to Dark (or potentially 
> Dark) wizards?  The only person I can say for sure who has one is 
> Draco Malfoy, as it's seen bringing him sweets from home.  The 
> only other sighting of one I can remember is when Harry can see 
Hagrid digging up earth near his cabin to bury 100 gold coins in 
preparation for the COMC lesson with the Nifflers in GOF. 
> 
> The eagle owl "flew through the coil of smoke rising from Hagrid's 
> chimney; it soared towards the castle, around the Owlery and out 
> of sight".  A considerable time later, Moody!Crouch Jr. is quick 
> on the scene when his father makes it to Hogwarts and Crouch Jr. 
> later confesses to having received word that his father had 
> escaped.
[snip] 
> Anyone who has seen another eagle owl please let me know, and does 
> anyone see sense in my fears, or even agree with them?  

No, I don't believe you are imaging things concerning eagle owls, 
and you are not the first person to notice this.  Not to try to 
reinvent the wheel, this post has some excellent points to make 
about this:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/53678

I hope that helps.

--Barb

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