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Great Horned Owls are native to the Americas, with a preference for deciduous, coniferous, forest, and desert habitats. They are carnivores with a diet that includes small mammals, reptiles, and even other owls!
Fun fact: When clenched, a Great Horned Owl’s strong talons require a force of 28 pounds to open.
Our resident owl is with us due to a permanent wing injury that prohibits them from ever flying properly again.
Owl-post. Anybody know how this works?
I’ve been trying to piece together how the owl mail works in the Harry Potter world and can’t find explaining passages and everything I think I know is probably from fic.
Do owls magically know where the intended recipient is? Do they only need the name?
We know there are magical locating spells that presumably work automatically (see Harry’s letter with the frankly disturbing accuracy and more disturbing location named). So post owls could have a similar spell in their very being and find the person on name alone.
On the other hand, I don’t remember this ever being explicitly stated. So every letter sending scene could be with the addresses known to the sender. Harry’s correspondence with Ron and Hermione happens while he would definitively know both their addresses. With Sirius I believe he answers with the birds Sirius sent in the first place.
In OotP, Dumbledore alludes to “missing the owl on the way to the ministry” during the trial. This could go either way: owl was sent to Hogwarts OR Dumbledore apparated and the poor owl suddenly felt a tug in the opposite reaction, since their traveling time is longer than near-instant.
Ron sends a letter to Azkaban to free Hagrid in 2nd year. I don’t believe a thirteen year old knows the exact address for the prison to the point of remembering it after a highly stressful and traumatic event.
So does anybody know if the owls have to be told an address to deliver letters? Or if the sender’s intent alone works?