Mrs. Figg and JKR's Comments (was Re: Mrs. Figg....rumors)

[joym999 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 16750

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Haggridd" <jkusalavagemd at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., meboriqua at a... wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Kelley" <SKTHOMPSON_1 at m...> wrote:
> > > 
> > > JKR confirmed at the Edinburgh Book Festival that Mrs. Figg IS 
a 
> > > squib.  
> > 
> > How can Mrs. Figg  be a squib if she is also Arabella Figg?  How 
is 
> it 
> > possible that a squib would be part of the "old crowd"?.  I don't 
> get 
> > it.
> > 
> I was in an online chat at Scholastic where JKR confirmed that the 
> Mrs. Figg of PS/SS was Arabella Figg.  This was in the fall of last 
> year, right around the time that JKR had the interview on the Today 
> Show.  She might be a Squib.  Does anyone else remember that there
> was also some talk--I'm not sure about this-- that there would be a 
> character in the books who got magic later in Life?  Could this 
have 
> been our Mrs. Figg?
> 

Actually, JKR did NOT confirm that Mrs. Figg and Arabella Figg are 
one and the same, IMHO.  The transcript of the Scholastic chat from 
last Oct. 16 goes like this:


Q: Is the Mrs. Figg with all the cats in the Dursleys' neighborhood 
the same Arabella Figg that Dumbledore mentioned at the end of book 4?

JK: Well spotted!

That could be interpreted as a confirmation, I suppose, but it sounds 
to me more like JKR is just congratulating the questioner on his/her 
alertness, while not really answering the question.


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