Owls on Privet Drive

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 97285

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Miller, Gina (JIS)"
<ginamiller at j...> wrote:
> Did anyone notice in the beginning of OTP Petunia said something to
Harry
> when they caught him under the window about all the Owls being there
to give
> him news. I do not remember the quote but he said it pained him to admit
> that the owls were not there for him because he had not gotten any
> news......then WHY were they there? I do not remember anything else
being
> said as to why there were so many owls present.
>  
> Gina - always looking for clues.
>  
> Gina A. Miller


bboy_mn:

I think there is a very subtly different way to interpert that same
scene. It's not that the owls were not there TO bring him news, but
that the information they did bring contained no news, or no news
Harry was interested in. Harry wasn't seeing anything in the Daily
Prophet that indicated news of Voldemort, and Ron and Hermione's
letters were frustratingly empty of news. 

So, in Harry's mind, the owls were indeed not bringing him news, at
least no news that he was interested in hearing.

The quantity of owls, in general, were Ron and Hermione's letters and
Harry was now subscribing to the Daily Prophet which seems to have a
morning and evening edition as well as a Sunday addition. That is
certainly a lot more owls the Harry had ever receive in the past, and
would certianly have been enough that Vernon would have commented on it.

Anyway, that's how I interpreted that scene.

bboy_mn