Mrs.Figg DADA- teacher? (Mrs. Figg as babysitter)

[meckelburg at foni.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 15395

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Bugg" <bugganeer at y...> wrote:
> Witches and Wizards live considerably longer than muggles. Hagrid is 
> in his 60's and Dumbledore is over 100. 11 years isn't as long a 
time 
> as it is to muggles. Rowling only sneaks in what she wants so we may 
> find out she prepared Harry a little. We also do not know if she 
> stayed in the house that often. She could apparate to Hogsmeade 
> occationally. I agree that we don't really know if she broke her 
leg. 
> She may have stopped an attack or just wanted Harry to go to the 
zoo. 
> 
> Two questions: 
> 1) What about Mrs. Figg teaching DADA? If Dumbledore trusted her 
> there she must be good. 
> 2) What about marrying a muggle even though you may double thier 
> lifespan? I don't know if I would like it.

to 1) Ithink I read in a Rowling- interview that there will be a 
female DADA -Teacher in a later book, so why not. IMO all these 
discussions of Mrs.Figg being a Sqib lead into the wrong direction. 
Mrs. Figg would not ge of any use to Dumbledore's DADA-gang if she 
could not do any magic. And she was in the "old"gang, which means she 
has faught V long before Harry met V. On the contrary, I think she 
must have quite extraordinary magical powers we don't know of yet.

to 2) I wouldn't like that sort of relationship either, but Muggles 
don't stick to their age when they fall in love, and at least a 
muggle/wizard- relationship can be "normal" for a very long time. I 
don't think many witches/wizards talk about this sort of think until a 
relationship is well on the way, so many couples try to push that 
problem away to much later. Wizards/witches have magical 
possbibilities which can help even a muggle get much older than normal 
( no typical old-people diseases for instance), so that they could lat 
110 - 115 years, which slows the problem down a little.

forgive my spelling,
Mecki