How do owls find people WAS: Re: Sirius and jail

[Miles]

No: HPFGUIDX 167582

Asl Tmerkan wrote:
> This seems very logical, but still, I can't understand how an owl is
> not
> traceable. And I don't understand how owls are this brilliant in
> finding
> people. If the adress is written, than okay, but if no one knows
> where a
> person is, how can an owl find him?

Miles:
Well, you are not surprised that an owl can understand spoken language and
think they should be able to read, but you are surprised that it can find
people without an address? Why so?

Those owls are magical creatures. Thestrals can find any place, owls
(almost) every person. That's what JKR made owls like - and so they are in
Potterverse.

We can talk about inconsistencies concerning travel speed and such, but the
ability to find people is a "fact" like the healing powers of Phoenix'
tears.

Miles (curious if he has slipped back into probation status after not
writing for some time)