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- Albus Potter: "You don't like pigeons?"
- Harry Potter: "Nasty, pecky, dirty things. They give me the creeps."
- Albus Potter: "But pigeons are harmless!"
- — Albus Potter and Harry Potter regarding pigeons[src]
A pigeon was a member of any one of several hundred bird species belonging to the genus Columbidae.[2]
History
Jacob Kowalski's grandfather enjoyed keeping pigeons, a hobby that he apparently passed on to his grandson.[3] Queenie Goldstein learned about his pigeon-keeping while reading Jacob's thoughts in 1926.[3]
In 1927, Newton Scamander and Albus Dumbledore startled a flock of pigeons into flights when they Apparated to Trafalgar Square.[4]
During the 1986–1987 school year, whilst asking Muggles in King's Cross Station about birds, a talkative Muggle told Jacob's sibling and Penny Haywood about all the birds they could find in the station, including pigeons.[5]
During the Calamity in at least the 2010s, the availability of owls used by the St. Troglodous Order of Labours for greenhouse fertiliser massively decreased, forcing a Calamity Investigator working for the Statute of Secrecy Task Force to suggest that the organisation use pigeons to replace them. The members of STOOL, thankful for the Calamity Investigator's help, taught them a technique that would enable them to cast the Greenhouse Charm more times than they could previously.[6]
Pigeons used to live in Hogsmeade.[7]
Harry Potter once confided to his son Albus Potter that he strongly disliked pigeons, considering them to be "nasty, pecky, dirty things" that gave him the creeps. Later, when he told Albus that he would someday be "some wizard," his son quipped that he was quite excited about going into pigeon racing instead.[8]
Appearances
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Illustrated Edition
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Thai illustrated edition)
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (play)
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)
- Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay
- Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
- Pottermore
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (First appearance)
- Fantastic Beasts: Cases from the Wizarding World
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
- Harry Potter: Wizards Unite (Mentioned only)
- Hogwarts Legacy (Appears on a tapestry)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
- ↑ "Pigeon" on Encyclopedia Britannica
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay, Scene 80
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay, Scene 28
- ↑ Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, "THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF WANDS" Achievement
- ↑ Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts: Cases from the Wizarding World, Case 13: Family Duels
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Act Four, Scene Fifteen