[HPforGrownups] Arabella Figg/DADA teacher

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 42646

Tara writes:

> Can't you just imagine, Arabella "Figg" being James Potter's sister?  Or
> something of the like?  (I'm new to the list so I haven't heard all the
> interesting ideas everyone has)  It would explain so much and be so
> intruiging to the series!  If Arabella was James' sister, it would be
> *natural* that she would date Sirius, he being  James' best friend.

I really don't think Arabella Figg could be James' sister because it would
make her as close a blood relation to Harry as Petunia Dursley.  And thus it
wouldn't make sense why she couldn't have kept Harry (even disguised as a
Muggle) instead of the horrid Dursleys.

>
> Hoping to hear more ideas like this...  Do we really think Arabella Figg
> will be the next DADA teacher?  If she was shamed from the WW, then I
> don't see why she would want to go back to Hogwarts.  Why is everyone so

Well we have no evidence that she was shamed from the WW.  It sounds more
like a volunteer mission to me.  And if she was Harry's great aunt by
marriage and the only other surviving "Potter" albeit by marriage not blood,
she would feel responsible for him.  Yet she coudn't provide the protection
that a blood relative can, if it's the blood relation that is keeping Harry
safe at the Dursleys.

Richelle