You know you want it, baby.

[Jorlem]

Bob Schroeck wrote:

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Well, he was looking for spells, and parseltongue isn't a spell. And I didn't know about that piece, which still doesn't really say there aren't wild owls, just implies that the ones Muggles see flying about are almost certainly post owls.

True, though given his association with metahumans, I would have thought that he would have looked into innate abilities as well.  Whoops.
As for the owl thing, I did mention a few months back in the Pottermore thread, along with the owls using the mystical link between a person's name and the person to find them to deliver the mail.  (Looking back at the Pottermore article, the people who raise the owlets don't actually quite understand how the owls do this, so it is apparently something innate to the birds themselves.)
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"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.