An owl for Gore Vidal

[shewhomust]

From Jane Fonda's autobiography, My Life So Far, via the extract in The Guardian:

"We [Fonda and her husband, Roger Vadim] rented a house on the outskirts of the city [Rome] - part castle, part dungeon. There was a tower next to our bedroom that dated from the second century before Christ. At night we regularly heard scuffling coming from there. One evening, during a dinner party in the cavernous living room below, there was a loud noise, some plaster fell from the ceiling, and an owl fell onto Gore Vidal's plate..."

There must be someone out there more qualified than I am to unpick the significance of Gore Vidal in the Hogwarts hierarchy...