Dumbledore and Hedwig

[Eustace_Scrubb]

No: HPFGUIDX 109577

Uncertain who wrote this (meriaugust?), quoted by Amey:
>> -	4: Also, Hagrid picked out Hedwig from the Eyelops Owl 
>> -	Emporium.  Was DD just sitting there waiting to be picked up by
>> -	Hagrid?  IIRC, Hagrid decided at the very last minute to buy > >>
-     Harry Hedwig,and after that Hedwig was at Privet Drive with
>> -	Harry till term started.  With all that was going on at 
>> -	Hogwarts that year, DD would surely have been missed.
 
Then Amey:
> Hmm
 here I am at a loss. But then, Hagrid told Dumbledore that
they
> were going to buy Harry's school things, so he had time. Or
better
> still, he switched with the real Hedwig in after Harry arrived in
> school.

Now Eustace_Scrubb nitpicks:  
While Hagrid says that he will buy Harry an owl as a birthday present,
in the book (PS/SS, Canadian pb ed., pp. 62-63), there's no canon here
that states that Hagrid _picked_ the owl.  They both go into Eeylops
and emerge with Hagrid...we aren't told the details of what goes on
within.

Of course in the..hem, hem..adaptation in a medium that we don't
discuss on the main list..this detail is changed, as Hagrid does get
Hedwig while Harry is with Mr. Ollivander.  

So, did Hagrid steer Harry towards Hedwig?  I don't think there's any
real canon either for or against, since we don't go into the store
with them.

Cheers,

Eustace_Scrubb