Mrs. Figg as babysitter

[fgcjnk at btinternet.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 15306

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Barbara Foster Williams <bafoster at m...> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> fgcjnk at b... wrote:
> > > 2. She had to be able to drop her life and go do this. The poor
> > witch
> > > has spent how many years as a Muggle?
> > 
> > I still think she's a squib and had to live like this anyway.
> 
> But if she's a Squib, she wouldn't be useful to Dumbledore and Co, 
and
> thus he wouldn't ask Sirius to find her at the end of GoF.  That's 
my
> opinion, anyway. :)
> 
> Barbara :)
> 

No,  Dumbledore knows he needs ALL the help he can get.  Giants, house 
elves, squibs and muggles all have their uses limited in various ways 
no doubt.  I don't think Dumbledore has any predudices against squibs 
- he employs Filch and he's an unpleasant character as well.

Florence