Mrs Figg

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No: HPFGUIDX 24533


Hmm - didn't read far enough, obviously. So Mrs. Figg IS a squib. 
So how can she protect Harry????



--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" <
catlady at w...> wrote:
> 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!!!