Eagle owl wasRe: SNAPE the coward?

potioncat willsonkmom at msn.com
Tue Nov 23 01:52:54 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 118368


Carol wrote: 
> 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.
> 

Potioncat:
When I read the book earlier, I thought the Eagle Owl was a clue 
that Malfoy was involved.  But it doesn't look like he was. If the 
owl was Draco's owl or the family owl, I don't think any Malfoy knew 
it was being used to send mail to LV.  Given that Crouch!Moody was 
no friend of the Malfoys, it would seem odd for him to use the 
Malfoy owl. I'm sure Lucius and most of the DEs knew something was 
up, but I think only Barty Crouch Jr and Pettigrew knew that LV was 
fully back.

So the question is, was it indeed Malfoy's owl?  Can anyone just use 
any owl?  Yes, I know Crouch!Moody wouldn't mind breaking rules, but 
it would seem odd if anyone saw him using Malfoy's owl.  So are 
there two different Eagle Owls at Hogswarts?

Does anyone have a SS/PS handy?  Are we told what kind of owl came 
with an urgent request for Dumbledore just before Quirrell went for 
the stone?







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