"Late Bloom"magic, Hagrid, Why Snape would have spared Lily

[Haggridd]

No: HPFGUIDX 22125

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., pigwidgeon37 at y... wrote:

 I've always 
> had the impression that old Mrs. Figg who sometimes babysits Harry, 
> is a Muggle and that Arabella might be her daughter/ niece/ 
> granddaughter. I know this is not canon, but neither is it 
> contradicted by canon 
> 
> 
> 
> Susanna

IIRC it is contradicted in that JKR said in an interview that Mrs. 
Figg is in fact the Arabella Figg of "the old crowd."  But she can 
still have a namesake granddaughter, can't she?

Haggridd