Dumbledore's letters to Petunia (Re: Petunia's Eyes)

[lyraofjordan]

No: HPFGUIDX 170015

> 
> Dung:
> Right. ::rolls up sleeves:: 
> I'm going to attack PS chapter 1, and work out where Vernon could 
be 
> wrong...
> 
> ::loading::
> 
> p7-8 (UK).
> *************************
> Mr Dursley hummed as he picked out his most boring tie for work and 
> Mrs Dursley gossiped away happily as she wrestled a screaming 
Dudley 
> into his high chair.
> None of them noticed a large tawny owl flutter past the window.
> *************************
> 
> None of them noticed *at the time*. But then Vernon goes out to 
work. 
> A fluttering owl is not an owl on a long journey, it's an owl near 
> its destination, isn't it? It could be going to Mrs Figg, although 
> she lives two streets away, but it could equally be going to 
Petunia. 
> Someone sending their condolences on the death of her sister?
> 
>
Lyra
One more "owl-ish" bit from pages 3-4 of U.S. version of PS/SS, after 
Vernon goes to work:

"Mr. Dursley always sat with his back to the window in his office on 
the ninth floor. .... *He* [emphasis in original] didn't see the owls 
swooping  past in broad daylight; though people down in the street 
did ... Mr. Dursley, however, had a perfectly normal, owl-free 
morning."

Vernon had an owl-free morning. No word on how many owls Petunia 
might have encountered that day.