Owls on Privet Drive

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 97383


> 
> 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.
>  

Finwitch:

I'd like to add a few things the owls could be doing. For one, did 
Arabella Figg perhaps send one to Mundungus Fletcher? (After all, he 
was supposed to be tailing Harry).

Also, we have a 10-year-old Mark Evans. Supposing he turns 11 in July 
or August, he might be getting his Hogwarts letter. If his guardians 
are attempting the same 'ignore them'-tactics as Vernon when Harry's 
letter came, I wouldn't be at all surprised if a lot of those owls 
they were going to Mark Evans.

This 'tale worthy of Harry Potter' - business, how many are writing 
that sort of things, how many demand to know what Harry has to say, 
how many want to know how Cedric Diggory died... There's plenty of 
things these owls could be around there for.

--- Finwitch