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If you’ve seen a Harry Potter film, you know that owls figure prominently. But like some jungle movies, the producers have taken a bit of license with the facts.
Harry’s owl, Hedwig, is a beautiful Snowy Owl. Although Hedwig is portrayed as a female, “she” is actually a pure white, male Snowy Owl. Female Snowies are dusky brown. True to life, though, Snowy Owls are awake and active during the day.
Harry’s friend Ron Weasley has an owl named Pigwidgeon – a Scops-Owl, strictly a bird of Europe and Northern Africa.
Ron’s family has an owl, too – a Great Gray Owl. [Great Gray Owl call] But Great Gray Owls aren’t found in Great Britain.
The evil Draco Malfoy, Harry’s rival, has the biggest owl of all in England, the Eurasian Eagle-Owl. With sinister orange-red eyes, he makes a perfect pet for a villain.
I am most intrigued by the Owl post which is a wizarding system of sending messages or items using owls as the carriers. I love the mountain of Hogwarts invites young Harry received.
Besides the Owl Post Office, individuals and organizations with their own owls use them as their mail bearers. Harry Potter's owl, Hedwig, was used as his primary means of communicating with his friends and his godfather, Sirius Black. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry had a number of owls that anyone at the school could use. They, along with students' personal owls, were kept in the Owlery.
Post owls are quite intelligent, and can usually find their mail's recipient with little to no direction.
Other birds can be used for delivering messages. Sirius Black, while in hiding, sent unspecified tropical birds as message carriers while communicating with Harry Potter, leading Harry to speculate that Sirius was hiding in a warmer environment than England. However, the preponderant bird used for messaging was the owl. Muggles have their own form of post and therefore do not use owls, nor were they generally aware that owls or other birds could be used for correspondence.
Fred Weasley and George Weasley conducted much of their business for Weasley's Wizard Wheezes via an owl order service.
In 1995, the British Ministry of Magic enacted several laws regarding censorship of owl post.
It is also noted that owls can address 'real owners' under pen-names, as Hedwig did this as he wrote 'Padfoot' or 'Snuffles' and Hedwig successfully delivered these to Sirius Black. Though Harry might have said who to send it to, thus owls might be capable understanding of human speech.
- It is possible to make oneself impossible to be traced by owl post; Sirius Black and Lord Voldemort both were able to do so to avoid having the British Ministry of Magic find them
- According to W.O.M.B.A.T., it may be illegal to send mail-bearing owls across international borders without authorisation.
- The non-canonical Educational Decree Number Forty-Seven required Hogwarts students to submit to their post being searched for illegal contraband. In the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix novel, Dolores Umbridge had her Inquisitorial Squad examine the post of all incoming owls, apparently regardless of student consent.
