Hedwig, isn't completely accurate.

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Only after Rowling had finished the first book and it was set for publication did she find out that snowy owls are actually silent, which in the books Hedwig is not. She admits she made a research mistake but says that readers are free to assume that Hedwig communicates because of her magical nature.

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