a few nitpicks on Eagle Owls / vampire interview / hag / Bertha and Peter

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Snow wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/1283 :

<< Snape's animagus form could be, say, an eagle. Another puzzlement,
to me, is the fact that in the beginning chapter of GOF, babymort is
carried into the room of the Riddle manor by an eagle. There is also
an eagle that flies over Hagrid's cabin that most writers have
attributed to correspondence between Voldemort and Crouch Jr. as Moody. >>

In the beginning chapter of GoF, babymort is already in the room at
the end of the passage, with the fire lit, when Frank Bryce and the
reader first encounter him. 

I know it was an EAGLE OWL that flew over Hagrid's cabin -- Bubo bubo,
the Eurasian Eagle Owl, sometimes called Horned Owl, related to Bubo
virgianus, the Great Horned Owl. http://owlpages.com/species/Default.htm

I recall several Eagle Owls but no Eagles (except the Ravenclaw
symbol) in canon so far.

Jo mooseming wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/1289 :

<< Take that interview response:
Is Snape a vampire?
Erm, I don't think so >>

World Book Day chat,
http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2004/0304-wbd.htm :
Megan: Is there a link between Snape and vampires?
JK Rowling replies -> Erm... I don't think so.

Pippin wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/1294 :

<< but aren't you all ignoring the possibility that Umbridge is more
than metaphorically a hag? (snip) Perhaps Dumbledore was able to
rescue her from the centaurs by revealing that she wasn't actually a
human after all. >>

But centaurs like hags even less than they like humans. As Charme
already mentioned in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/1284 "a small
footnote on page xiii [of FB] explain[s] that centaurs didn't like
being classified as a "being" with hags and vampires, so they bugged
out to manage their own affairs." 

Kneasy wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/1357 :

<< And do you really believe that Peter would be able to persuade her
to take a walk in the woods *before* he overpowers her? >>

Bear in mind that I believe that human Peter was an ordinary slubby
looking bloke, not the Dickensianly grotesque ugliness shown in PoA
movie. Thus it seems totally obvious and pathetic that poor Bertha, a
homely desperate middle-aged spinster (as a homely not-quite
-desperate middle-aged not spinster, I relate!), would have been more
than happy to walk out with any age-appropriate unmarried wizard; she
may have SUGGESTED the private stroll (in vague hope of seducing him)
in the course of a conversation that began by her exclaiming: "Peter
Pettigrew! I thought you were blown to bits by that evil traitor! They
sent your Order of Merlin to your mother!" Then Peter could have
responded by spinning a tale of having awakened injured and amnesiac
in some unknown place and having only recently regained his memory and
thus being on the way back to Britain to resume his identity...