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

[snow15145]

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. >>

Catlady correctly responded:
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.

Snow:

Yep, you're right! I remembered two different instances having to 
deal with Voldemort at the Riddle Manor and combined them 
inadvertently; the one stated above and one on pg. 576 U.S. where 
Harry is in a dream sleep:

"He was riding on the back of an eagle owl, soaring through the clear 
blue sky toward an old, ivy-covered house set high on a hillside. 
Lower and lower they flew, the wind blowing pleasantly in Harry's 
face, until they reached a dark and broken window in the upper story 
of the house and entered
"
"Harry had left the owl's back
he was watching, now, as it fluttered 
across the room, into a chair with its back to him
"

Although this deals with a dream state the eagle owl is still 
representative of a messenger, of sorts, for Voldemort. 

The eagle owl that flew over Hagrid's has always been assumed to be a 
messenger owl between Voldemort and Crouch Jr. and sometimes 
associated with the eagle owl that delivers mail for the Malfoy's. I 
was thinking of the relationship between these instances and Snape as 
Malfoy's lap dog as well as spying on Voldemort along with what type 
of animagus forms Snape would take. 

I suppose it's a bit presumptuous to even assume that Snape may be an 
animagus at all except for the World Book Day Chat where Rowling made 
a type of connection between the Patronus and Animagus forms:

"class 14: If you were a animagus which animal would you be? and why?
JK Rowling replies -> I gave Hermione my idea animagus, because it's 
my favourite animal. You'll find the answer in the Room of 
Requirement, Order of the Phoenix!"

(Rowling was asked in this instance about her likely animagus form 
but replied with Hermione's Patronus form. A bit confusing to me but 
isn't Rowling always confusingly so in her interviews, as it has been 
discussed here recently.)

And then Rowling continues in the same interview to answer about 
Snape:

"Ernie: I wonder if you can let us know what form will Professor 
Snape's Boggart and Patronus take? I am very curious.
JK Rowling replies -> Well, I'm not going to tell you Ernie, but 
that's because it would give so much away. "

Why would Snape's Boggart or Patronus have any bearing on the story 
to give too much away? Now if Rowling was considering his animagus 
form when answering, I could see it affecting the storyline to a 
degree. This is the reason I was making an attempt to find how 
Snape's animagus form would tie in with the scattered clues that have 
been given about Snape's connection with Malfoy as a lap dog and his 
spying responsibilities on Voldemort's activities. There is, of 
course, the vampire type description of Snape to consider that 
Rowling, again, answered in anything but a straightforward reply, 
imo. 

Thanks for pointing out the discrepancy in the example I referred, 
Catlady, and I hope I was a bit clearer of my intentions. 

Snow