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There were two birds living in the seventh-floor corridor of Hogwarts Castle during the 1996–1997 school year. One was black, and the other was white.[1]
Biography[]
The two birds were born in or before 1996 and came to live in a spherical birdcage hung from the top of the Hogwarts seventh-floor corridor at some point.[1]
On 1 March 1997, the white bird was brought from its cage by sixth-year Slytherin student Draco Malfoy to test the usability and efficiency of Vanishing Cabinet in the Room of Requirement, which he was attempting to repair for his given mission. Draco succeeded in displacing the bird into another Cabinet at Borgin and Burkes safely, but when the bird was sent back to Draco, it was dead.[4]
By May 1997, Draco took the black bird to conduct another test with Vanishing Cabinet and subsequently left the bird inside it.[5]
Behind the scenes[]
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, when Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley entered the Room of Requirement to hide the Half-Blood Prince's copy of Advanced Potion-Making, they opened the Vanishing Cabinet and freed the black bird.
- However, since Ginny's presence in the Room of Requirement was not in the novel, the canonicity of the black bird's freedom is unclear.[6]
- If the freed black bird continued to live in the Room of Requirement, it was likely killed by Vincent Crabbe's Fiendfyre during the Battle of Hogwarts.
- In the video game, a Hufflepuff boy named James Tuckett observed Draco taking the birds from their cage and informed Harry.[7]
- The inscription encircling the bottom of the spherical birdcage is a line from Horace's Satiresz: Deus inde ego furum aviumque maxima formido (A god thus I am - to thieves and birds the greatest fear).
- Judging from their physical appearances and voices, it is highly possible that the birds are canaries.
Appearances[]
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game) (Mentioned only)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
- ↑ The bird's death was on the same day Ron Weasley get poisoned: 1 March 1997
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince screenplay, Scene 90
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince screenplay, Scene 94
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince screenplay, Scene 106
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 24 (Sectumsempra)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)