Letters to wish Harry a happy 13th birthday. The eleven governers of Hogwarts, other than Lucius Malfoy, barraged Dumbledore with owls asking for his return to Hogwarts. Harry addressed envelopes while in detention.Ī letter rejecting his application to the Headless Hunt. Ī Howler when she found out he had taken the car. Ī letter regarding Harry and Ron crashing a car into the Whomping Willow. Ron used Errol to wrote to Hermione, and she replied with plans to meet them in Diagon Alley. īooklists arrived from Hogwarts, while Harry was staying at The Burrow. Ī warning against doing underage magic, shortly after Dobby performed a Hover Charm. Ī " thick wad of envelopes" were sent over the summer, but Dobby intercepted them. Hagrid sent owls to James and Lily's old school friends to obtain photos of them for Harry. Īn urgent note, supposedly from the Ministry of Magic, to lure him away from Hogwarts so he steal the Philosopher's Stone. Īgreement to take Norbert, after Ron presumably wrote to him to ask and Ron replied. Invitation to visit and Harry replied " Yes, please, see you later" - his first owl post letter. Īccording to Hagrid, Cornelius Fudge often peppered Dumbledore with owls asking for advice as Minister for Magic. However, wizards could not send an owl to someone they wanted to find and then "follow" the owl to discover the person's whereabouts.Ī note letting Dumbledore know he had successfully picked up Harry. Hedwig also routinely hunted Harry down in Hogwarts, such as in the Gryffindor Tower or even his classes, and Pigwidgeon successfully delivered a letter to Harry while he was on the moving Hogwarts Express. Some magic was used by owls in finding their recipients Hedwig, for example, was able to easily locate Sirius Black when he was on the run from the Ministry of Magic, even though Aurors were unable to do so. Muggles had their own form of post and therefore did not use owls, nor were they generally aware that owls or other birds could be used for correspondence. However, the preponderant bird used for messaging was the owl. This led Harry to speculate that Sirius was hiding in a warmer environment than England. Sirius Black, while in hiding, sent unspecified tropical birds as message carriers while communicating with Harry Potter. Other birds could be used for delivering messages. Post owls were quite intelligent, and could usually find their mail's recipient with little to no direction. " All the kids want owls, they're dead useful, carry yer mail an' everythin'." - Rubeus Hagrid In 1995, the British Ministry of Magic enacted several laws regarding censorship of owl post. Fred Weasley and George Weasley conducted much of their business for Weasley's Wizard Wheezes via an Owl Order Service. This service came into prominent use when a Slug Club Christmas party was approaching in Harry's sixth year, and girls bought Love Potions from Weasley's Wizard Wheezes through Fred and George's Owl Order Service. Owls were also used by some businesses for Owl Order Service, to deliver goods. Hermione Granger also took out a subscription to the Daily Prophet as well, and the owls that delivered it did not seem to have collected anything. In this case, the owl had a pouch which it used to collect Hagrid's money. Owls were also used for institutional deliveries, such as when one arrived with Hagrid's Daily Prophet in the Hut-on-the-Rock. Hedwig was hurt when Umbridge intercepted her letter, but the Weasleys' mail and Hogwarts mail were later searched as a matter of routine, with no harm coming to the animals. Intercepting owls could be done crudely or routinely. This was originally seen as an overbearing method of control by the Ministry of Magic and Dolores Umbridge, but once Voldemort's return became public it was widely accepted. These owls seemed to have been used on occasion even to communicate across the school, such as when Hagrid sent a note to Harry at the end of his first week at Hogwarts, though this method seemed to have been given up by Harry's sixth year, when notes were instead regularly delivered in the hands of students.īeginning in Harry's fifth year, all owl post into Hogwarts was searched and inspected as a security precaution. Harry used school owls on several occasions when he needed to contact Sirius without attracting attention. Hogwarts also had a number of school owls, which could be used by students who did not own an owl themselves. At Hogwarts, owls lived in the Owlery in the West Tower and delivered mail to students once a day, at breakfast – though more urgent messages were frequently delivered to Harry Potter in his dormitory.
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