[TOPIC] Owls and Owl Post
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Idea belongs to: helenish
Idea found in: A Quaint Notion (Draco/Ron, NC-17)
Permission? No permission granted/sought.
A mail room located in Hogwarts (downstairs from the Great Hall); specifically a place to claim mailed items too large for owls to carry. The description in the fic is as follows:
The mail room was small and narrow, with only a long table against one wall, and a small slot and a window in the other wall. The slot was to slide the claim ticket through; the parcel then came out the window. It was all highly automated. Ron had just fished his somewhat grubby claim ticket out of his pocket when someone else came in.
There is no explanation given as to how the parcels arrived at Hogwarts in the first place if they were too heavy for the Owl post.
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Idea belongs to: Frances Potter
Idea found in: Coming of Age [PG-13], which is a work-in-progress in indefinite suspension. [The existing chapters were written prior to OotP, so the story is now AU in ways the discussion below will make clear.]
In Coming of Age, Hedwig is an animagus and serves as a protector for Harry -- more or less in the literary tradition of the fairy godmother, but without either the sentimental or grandmotherly aspects of that tradition's representation of powerful women. This fic explicitly parallels Hedwig with Sirius Black. (Harry only learns that she is an animagus after this story begins.)
Among other things, this storyline allows the author to reflect on the nature of familiars in wizardom, as she does in the following passage:
"No one ever chooses their own pet, Harry. Like your wand, the pet chooses you. The same way Crookshanks picked Hermione ( ... )
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Idea belongs to: knitmeapony
Idea found in: Magic and Muggles, slightly defunct and unlinkable at present.
Permission: Obviously.
In Hogsmeade, one of the buildings is the Owl Post Transfer Station. It has a proper muggle address where packages and letters can be delivered to, and an owlry. If a wizard should want or need to order something from the muggle world (or conversely wants to send something by owl to a muggle without alarming them), they can send it to the transfer station and fill out a little form telling the workers there where to transfer it from and to.
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Idea belongs to: R. J. Anderson.
Idea found in: The
Potion's Master's Apprentice
Permission? Not sought or received; no harm is here intended.
This is a longish Snape/OC woman fic where Snape blinds a woman who later receives a seeing owl coupled with a potion that lets her see through the owl's eyes.
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Idea belongs to: blythely
Idea found in: my Owlets stories (G) originally. But Draco's owl is always Quetzal.
Permission: With the greatest of pleasure... except for Quetzal.
Draco's owl is called Quetzal, after the Aztec feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatal.
Quetzal gets Hedwig, er, in the Family Way, producing three chicks which Draco and Harry name Harlequin, Quisling and Hajari.
In The Reproductive Characteristics of Magical Owls, Draco discovers:
The mating season is two weeks before the winter solstice, with laying on New Year's Eve... [and] ... The number of eggs in the clutch is entirely dependent on how much, and with what, the male provisions the female. Snowy owls can lay anything up to 12 eggs in one clutch, if the female receives large amounts of fresh meat.
Draco and Harry go to the post office for advice about the owlets, and discover how the birds are assessed for their aptitude as post owls.
Avery Fleet, the Postmaster and sometime owl-expert, scoops out each of the owlets ( ... )
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