Wow, I had to look up Horcruxes, I found here: https://collider.com/harry-potter-horcruxes-explained/ scary stuff, thanks for the heads up.
You might have some thoughts on something that happened to me very recently, it was before things kicked off in Palestine, an incredible bird landed on my balcony, looking in at me still lying in bed, lazy, not up yet, it was late morning, mayge 10 or 11 am, my balcony has always been popular with pigeons, since I made the mistake of allowing an egg to hatch there, I ended up with weeks and months of pigeons using it as their home, more then mine. I eventually got rid of them, but they kept coming back. Anyhow this bird looked like a pigeon in silhouette, but when I actually focused on it could not believe my eyes, it had huge hooked beak, huge feet that gripped the balcony rail (About the diameter of a deodorant aerosol can), big eyes that both looked forward like an owl, and mottled beige / cream coloured belly like an owl, but the backs of its wings were slate grey, just like a pigeon.
It sat there for a good 4 or five minutes, seemed to be most interested in me, but was continuously looking back and forth around it, tracking other birds flying past - it had its back to them, I think this was intentional, to appear like a pigeon but actually this was unmistakeably a bird of prey, a hunter.
I looked it up, and found it was a Merlin.
I never heard of anyone ever seeing a Merlin in UK before, though I know there is some famous UK folk who used them as pet hunters, keeping them captive, I don't think many people know there are at least some living in UK cities now, amongst pigeons. Now I know more about it, and seeing what I saw, now I swear I can see them often now leading squadorns of pigeons, attacking and noising up seagulls, which are a menace to pigeon eggs.
The Merlin is a seriously high consumption bird, it apparently has to consume at least two smaller birds per day to survive.
Since I saw it, I heve seen no pigeons near my balcony again since, it is clean, no pigeon poo, for the first time in the 15 years of history of my flat.
Further, the Merlin has strange genetics, they go back as far in history as we know, it even appears to have existed in dinosaur days.
Anyhow I can't help feeling like what must have been an extraordinarily rare event, a Merlin voluntarily tolerating close proximity of a human for quite a few minutes it was trying to communicate something to me, I am still not sure what the message might have been, it even appeared to wink, just before it dived spectacularly backwards off the balcony when it left.
Any thoughts?
