Mrs Figg

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 24478

I found it! Post 1429 from Thu Sep 14, 2000, from Blaise:

On another egroup that I belong to (hpslash), someone who was at the 
Edinburgh Book Festival posted a message about some of the things JKR 
said about the books, and I thought you might be rather interested...

<<- Mrs Figg is a squib.  Godric's Hollow (where is that again?) is 
gonna be very important as is Snape and the whole thing with Harry's 
eyes!  She says Snape could still turn out to be either bad or good 
but she's not telling us which.  The really big death comes in book 
five.  She has already written the very final chapter of the whole 
series.  The Dark Mark chapter in the GoF was a killer for her to 
write - she rewrote it about 9 times and ended up thinking she'd 
never be able to finish it.>>

Also 4175 from Fri Oct 20, 2000 and from Blaise:
from the B&N chat,  Quotation marks for direct quotes.      

Does Arabella Figg have an important role in the later books.  
-'You'll be seeing Mrs Figg in Book 5 and you'll find out all about 
her.' 

I believe the following is from the Scholastic chat of that same 
October 2000:

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