Eagle owl wasRe: SNAPE the coward?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 118358


Vivamus wrote:
> > Good thought about the particular owl having a charm allowing it 
> to find LV; that hadn't occurred to me at all.
> > 
> > On Lucius, though, I must be missing something.  Why do you say he 
> did not know then that LV was back?  
> 
Potioncat responded:
>  I had thought that the Eagle owl was Malfoy's and that Malfoy was 
> helping LV througout GoF. But the conversation in the Graveyard 
> indicates that it is the first contact Lucius has had with LV.  And 
> given Crouch's feelings toward the DEs who went free, I don't think 
> Lucius knew about him. So it doesn't make sense that his owl was 
> being used.  Unless of course, Crouch Jr was using that owl for a 
> particular reason, without Lucius' knowledge.

Carol notes:
Doesn't canon specifically refer to the eagle owl as Draco's, not the
family's? Evidently he keeps it at school and Lucius wouldn't have
access to it unless Draco sent a letter to his parents--not very
likely unless it was a request for sweets from Narcissa. Crouch!Moody
probably chooses  that owl because it's distinctive and LV will
recognize it instantly. Maybe he (or LV) doesn't want the school owls
to know where LV is. (?)

At any rate, I don't think that Lucius had anything to do with sending
the owl, and I don't think he knew what LV, Wormtail, and Crouch!Moody
were up to. Even so, I suspect his remark in the graveyard about not
knowing that LV was back is disingenuous. He must have suspected, as
Snape and Karkaroff did, that LV's strength was increasing because his
Dark Mark was becoming more and more visible.

Carol