Timeline for Why do Hogwarts owls almost always arrive at breakfast?
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| Jul 1, 2020 at 12:16 | comment | added | Bob Jarvis - Слава Україні | Also - if you'd just flapped your all the way to Scotland wouldn't you prefer to deliver your cargo when you could grab a bite to eat? | |
| Jun 30, 2020 at 21:05 | comment | added | J... | @DiegoSánchez Well, naturally, no, because the second post was scrapped in 2004. Harry Potter is set in the 1990s when there were still two post deliveries per day - one of them early morning. Perhaps I should have said it was the British way. Probably now even young Brits don't have direct cultural memory of the first post. | |
| Jun 30, 2020 at 20:57 | comment | added | Diego Sánchez | @J... I've never seen the post arrive at breakfast in the UK. It arrives in the morning, like everywhere else I've lived in Europe, but never that early. | |
| Jun 30, 2020 at 16:17 | vote | accept | J. Mini | ||
| Jun 30, 2020 at 13:13 | comment | added | JdeBP | Really, it's not about the owls at all, and all of the answers are focusing on the wrong thing. It's based fairly squarely on the realities of middle 20th century postal delivery times in the U.K. and boarding school life. "first post" is somewhere between 07:00 and 09:00, "second post" around mid-day. So opening mail that arrived in the first post was a breakfast thing. The owls are just tarting it up a bit for a fictional magical setting. (-: | |
| Jun 30, 2020 at 13:02 | history | edited | F1Krazy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 30, 2020 at 12:51 | comment | added | J... | Also... it's just the British way. When else should the post come but in the morning? I don't think this needs any particular amount of thought put into it. It comes in the morning because that's the normal time for the post to arrive. Muggles get their post in the morning so Wizards get their post in the morning... just in a slightly more magical way. It's meant to make the wizarding world feel familiar... but different. This doesn't really work if you're not used to getting post in the morning, though, so I think this is mostly just British culture getting lost on non-UK audiences. | |
| Jun 30, 2020 at 9:43 | history | edited | F1Krazy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Remove the incorrect assumption about owls being nocturnal
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| Jun 29, 2020 at 13:50 | history | answered | F1Krazy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |