Which "One liners" do you think most beg for an explanation ?

[Brent]

No: HPFGUIDX 131240

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "saraquel_omphale" 
<saraquel_omphale at y...> wrote:

> Whilst reading the books, I've come across a few "one liners" which 
> have always puzzled me - as in, "why put in that detail?"  Some of 
> them may be real clues and others false trails, but I thought it 
might 
> be interesting to collect together all the as yet unexplained 
oddities 
> in one cauldron and cook up a potion. Or alternatively, dump all our 
> thoughts into one Pensieve and see if a pattern emerges. 
> So, tell me some really  interesting ones I've completely failed to 
> notice!
> 
> Saraquel

First off great topic for before book 6.

On re-listening to the audio version for PS I picked up on this line 
that has been eating away at me for the last could weeks.

In the beginning of Chapter one when describing the Dursleys there is 
a line thrown in "None of them noticed a Tawny Owl flutter past the 
window".  

He is the question I have.  Who is that owl going to see?  I can't see 
it being Miss Figg, as since Harry had just been attacked I can't see 
her being in place yet.  If it was Miss Figg then either that was 
pretty quick or DD must have seen this coming to have her in place 
already.  It can't be to Minerva McGonagall as the comments about her 
getting to Privet drive are after the fact.  That leaves Petunia or 
someone else since Vernon Dursley leave shortly after this.  As 
Petunia seems to appear to not understand what Vernon is talking about 
after he gets home from work I would figure it is not to her.  But 
what if it was and tells her something that Vernon doesn't know.  
Maybe it was from the MoM telling her, her sister died or from DD 
telling her Harry was coming so he knew she would agree to take him in 
before dumping him on the doorstep.  

Brent