[HPforGrownups] SHIP: CUPID'SBLUDGER on the rebound (WAS: Snape's Secret ...

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L Terrell Gould III:
> Ten points to anyone who knows what potion he's drinking!  Oh, what the 
> heck, I can't stand the suspense. It polyjuice potion! Hmmmmm............ 
> maybe Mrs. A. Figg is in actuality a young, beautiful, and 
> much-beloved-by-Snape protectress of Harry under the influence of polyjuice 
> potion (now backed by canon?), much in the same prolonged way as Crouch Jr. 
>  
> 
> I will allow space here for your many "Aha!"s,  applause,  and the throwing 
> of trinkets of your affection (chocolate is best).
> 

Eloise:
Well, chocolate always *is* best, isn't it? :-)

Now, here's the thing........Where is the beautiful young Arabella harvesting 
the hair from? Surely we can't have one of Dumbledore's trusted allies with a 
poor old lady locked up in a trunk, can we? Are there in effect, two Arabella 
Figgs, the one we know of and a willing, if slighly bald, old lady accomplice?

I have to say, though, that Charis Julia's and Cindy's suggestion that she is 
actually Sirius' rather than Snape's inamorata does make more sense, to me at 
least:

Cindy:
>Remember how Sirius escaped from 
>Azkaban?  He somehow knew exactly the neighborhood where he could 
>find Harry.  Sirius also inexplicably knows that Harry has been 
>living with his aunt and uncle.  How could Sirius, locked in Azkaban 
>for 12 years, know these details?  

>Pillow talk, my friends.  Sirius escaped Azkaban and went straight to 
>his old flame Arabella, and she told him where to find Harry and 
>filled him in on the doings in Harry's life.  Arabella, bless her, 
>never believed Sirius was guilty.  She knew him too well.  

>Finally, we know that Sirius was sent to notify the old crowd of 
>Voldemort's return, including Arabella.  That raises the question of 
>how Dumbledore can be so sure Arabella won't turn Sirius in to MoM on 
>sight?  The answer, I think, is that Arabella and Sirius go way back, 
>so to speak.

Eloise:
Mmm.....Perhaps this *is* the reason for her lonely exile. Sirius is 
arrested. Arabella is heartbroken and can't live with the looks she gets as 
the despised lover of that dangerous criminal, Sirius Black, so she turns her 
back on the wizarding world and, known only to Dumbledore (and the hair 
donor) goes to do what she can to protect her beloved's godson. I mean, it's 
a pretty big thing she's done, isn't it? 

My only question is how Sirius knew where to find Arabella, since presumably 
she is only living two streets from Privet Drive in order to keep an eye on 
Harry and so, like Harry, must have moved at appoximately the time of his 
arrest. I certainly can't see that he could have known or either of their 
whereabouts whilst he was in prison. Of course, perhaps he knows the little 
old lady (her mother? her aunt?) from whom she's harvesting the hair and went 
there first.

But if Cindy is wrong about this, then it does raise the questions of exactly 
*how* Sirius locates Harry so precisely and why Arabella can be trusted to 
believe in Sirius when apparently everyone, down to Dumbledore has believed 
he is guilty. Mind you, the same goes for Mundungus Fletcher. It can't be 
coincidence that he is to go to Lupin's first: he can vouch for him.

I suppose that it is just possible that Sirius did know where the Dursleys 
lived. After all, presumably James would have known. I can just imagine him 
taking Sirius to see exactly how awful his in-laws were. But he wouldn't have 
know that Dumbledore had taken Harry there, would he? I'm sure he wouldn't 
have contemplated doing it and he wouldn't expect it of Dumbledore, either.

And of course, getting back to the point, if she *is* Sirius' girlfriend, 
then Sirius (who as I have said before strikes me more as the 'hex first, 
think later' type, than Snape does) would be pretty ticked if Bertha caught 
him snogging the enigmatic Florence behind the greenhouse. Particularly if 
the aforementioned Flo was Snape's girl. Is this Cindy's trapezoid thingy?

Eloise, stopping before she gets too confused.


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