[HPforGrownups] OOP: Animagus

[Maria Kirilenko]

No: HPFGUIDX 55193


Marigold wrote: 

*Delurks*

We know the Dark Arts teacher will have a personality like poisoned 
honey and I think it's interesting seeing what everyone thinks her 
day-to-day personality will be like - but what if she's another 
animagus, even a registered one?

If she has a personality like poisoned honey, maybe she's a bee 
animagus, and if Dumbledore is also a bee animagus, then maybe we'll 
finally see romance for the Big D!

Then again, figs are usually sweet too, and taste a little like 
honey, so I think the "poisoned honey" may be a clue that it's 
Arabella Figg as the new teacher.

Me:

Hi, Marigold! I wouldn't read that much into the phrase. :) To me, a personality like 'poisoned honey' means, as I've said before, that the person in question is soft-spoken and generally very nice when she's around you, but really is pretty nasty. As Eileen (I think) said, she is someone who does nasty things behind your back. I don't see those particular words as anything more than an indicator of the woman's personality.

The reason why, to my mind, she's can't be Arabella Figg, is not that Figg is old (maybe), and the 'poisoned honey' phrase has a sexual connotation, but that I just don't read Arabella Figg like that. 'A mad old lady' who 'made [Harry] look at photographs of all the cats she'd ever owned?' No mention of her ratting on Harry to the Dursleys, or anything really unpleasant except the smell of cabbage, is there?

As for the meaning of the name Arabella Figg... We've dicussed it before. Arabella means, AFAIK, 'Beautiful Sanctuary.' I'm not so sure about the meaning of the name Figg, but I read on http://www.m5p.com/~pravn/hp/f.html that the name might be derived from "Figgis, from a nickname for a trustworthy or reliable person." Maybe someone can deposit two Galleons on this topic, instead of my meager Knuts?

As for Animagi, that's always a possibility, since there are 7 registered ones (in the 20th century, at least), but we've already met so many unregistered Animagi that I seem to be growing cold towards that particular 'plot twist.' I'm rather glad that Rowling isn't going to make Harry an Animagus.

Maria,

who thinks that the new DADA teacher might become her favourite character. ;)



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