[HPforGrownups] Re: Mrs Figg's broken leg...

[Michelle Stauss]

No: HPFGUIDX 46683

 


 
--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Darla" <talkative_alien_4000 at y...> 
wrote:

> From the four books it's pretty clear that Mrs Figg has a 
connection 
> to the WW and is in all probablity a witch herself, and perhaps 
lives 
> near the Dursleys in order to keep an eye on Harry. But in PS 
we're 
> told Harry can't stay with her during Dudley's birthday because 
she's 
> broken her leg. Couldn't that be easily fixed? I mean, broken 
bones 
> can be fixed 'in an instance', and wouldn't Mrs Figg know 
someone who 
> could mend it for her, even if she couldn't do so herself?
>   Was it deliberate so that Harry could go to the Zoo with 
Dudley, 
> perhaps as a test to see if he *was* a Parseltongue? Maybe 
Dumblebore 
> suspected that he would be? If so, doesn't that have some BIG 
> implications?
>   Darla.
 I don't think it was deliberately done. 
 My take is that she really *did* break her leg, and someone saw it
happen. The presence of a second party at the event added to the
^realness^ of it. After all, if no-one saw it happen and there is no
physical evidence of it happening, then it is possible that it never
happened in the first place. But since there were witnesses who were not
part of the WW (otherwise they wouldn't say anything to anyone else
about Mrs. Figg's little accident), Mrs. Figg couldn't just heal and
pretend that nothing had happened. Not if she didn't want to spook
Petunia/blow her cover.
-- Chyna Rose



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