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

Aslı Tümerkan aslitumerkan at gmail.com
Mon Apr 16 00:34:49 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 167603

> 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.

Asli:
Both Miles and Steve make a very good point. I think I thought owls would
understand the address, not because they were able to read but because
someone told them the address. Other than that, I don't know why I looked for
so much logic there.  "It's magic."






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