Jo's site and Snape's timeline in OOTP

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JKR updated her site, the rumors section especially. She gave a hint 
about the way the Order use to communicate:

"The Order communicates in a way that requires nothing but a wand. 
You saw the Order's method of communication in use even before you 
knew about the existence of the Order; it was employed  by an Order 
member."

I think she means this moment in GOF, when DD send a silvery thing to 
Hagrid, when Crouch Senior disappeared in the Forest.

So, if this birdie thing is what Snape used in OOTP, it weights in 
why it takes so much time for Snape to warn Sirius and later DD and 
the Order about Harry. 

It's not a instant message thing, it takes time, more if the receiver 
is far away.

Christelle