The eagle owl

[Sea Change]

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Berit said: 
 [long interesting post majorly-snipped by Sea Change]

> Anyone noticed any more eagle owl acticity in the books, apart from 
> the owl that brings Draco a fresh supply of treats every week (that's 
> an eagle owl if I remember corrrectly)?


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Sea Change responds:

No!  What an interesting find!  I had always assumed because Hedwig
was huge and prone to biting people that an eagle owl is what she was.
 On rereading the first book, apparently her size and ill temper (and
perhaps other monstrous traits) are simply accountable to the fact
that she's the kind of owl that Hagrid would like, and it was him who
gave her to Harry.

Maybe the eagle owl is the Malfoy family bird, and it appears whenever
Lucius is up to something?