The Eagle Owl/Re: Harry's dreams in GoF

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 165667

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> 
wrote:

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> Carol, not certain that the owl is Draco's/the Malfoys' but seeing 
> no other reason why the narrator would identify Draco's owl as the 
> same species that Fake!Moody was using


zanooda:

I don't know if the eagle owl was Malfoy's, but I have a related 
question to you guys. Do you think then that it's possible to use 
anyone's owl without the owner's permission? Are they bound to obey 
any human who needs a message delivered? 

If Crouch/Moody could send letters with Malfoy's personal owl, does 
this mean that anybody can come to the Owlery, take, say, Hedwig and 
send her out to deliver a letter without Harry even knowing? It 
doesn't feel right somehow. I think that Harry and any other owl 
owner would want to know whose letters his owl delivers.

> Carol:

> I'm pretty sure that Voldie and his loyal Death Eater corresponded
> back and forth, so when Harry sees the owl arrive, it would be
> returning to Hogwarts with one of many messages. (How else would
> Voldemort have obtained an owl unless it was the one Moody was 
> using? He couldn't send Wormtail to Eeylops Owl Emporium to buy 
> one.))

zanooda:

OK, that's funny! But, you know, Moody and Baby!Mort could have used 
Crouch's family owl. We don't know for sure Crouches had one, but 
it's a possibility. We know at least that Imperiused Crouch Sr. sent 
instructions to Percy by owl (when LV decided it was unsafe to let 
him out of the house anymore). Baby!Mort and Wormtail were staying at 
Crouch's house, at least until he managed to escape. And the owl (if 
it existed, of course) would obey Crouch/Moody as a member of the 
family. It seems logical to me that a chief of a department at the 
Ministry would have his personal (or family) owl.