Wikibooks: Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Hedwig

• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Subjects: Percy; snowy owl
• Online Access: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Muggles%27_Guide_to_Harry_Potter/Characters/Hedwig

Muggles Guide to Harry Potter/Character name=Hedwig gender=Female hair=None (white feathers) eyes=Yellow family=Unknown loyalty=[[Harry Potter]] = Overview = Hedwig is Harry s pet owl. Since mail is delivered by owls in the wizarding world she plays a valuable role in Harry s life. More than that however she is one of Harry s companions sometimes Harry feels that Hedwig is the only friend he has left. = Role in the Books = Muggles Guide to Harry Potter/Beginner Spoiler = [[Philosopher s Stone]] = [[Harry]] is allowed to bring a toad or a cat or an owl to school according to the book list. [[Hagrid]] who is guiding him through [[Diagon Alley]] decides to buy Harry an animal as a birthday present. Toads he says are old fashioned and would get him laughed at and he doesn t like cats because he says they make him sneeze so he takes Harry to Eeylops Owl Emporium and buys him a snowy owl. Back at the Dursleys home Harry decides to name his owl Hedwig a name he had found in his [[History of Magic]] text. At King s Cross Station as he tries to find [[Platform Nine and Three Quarters]] Harry feels that Hedwig s cage on top of his luggage cart makes him seem out of place. When he sees another family walking past talking about Muggles he begins to hope they might be able to show him the way to the platform but he only dares approach them when he sees one of them also has an owl in a cage. We will later learn that this is the [[Weasley family]] and the owl in question is [[Hermes]] who belongs to [[Percy]]. During the first week of school Hedwig occasionally flies in with the post owls at breakfast to nibble affectionately at Harry s ear and get a bit of toast before going off to sleep in the Owlery. On Friday she brings a note from Hagrid inviting Harry to tea after class. Harry immediately sends a response back saying he d be glad to. When Harry [[Ron]] and [[Hermione]] plan to get [[Charlie Weasley]] to take Hagrid s pet dragon [[Norbert]] to Romania to release it back into the wild it is Hedwig who brings Charlie s ...