[HPforGrownups] Food and Figg

[hagrid]

No: HPFGUIDX 56644

  Zach wrote:
    

  Hagrid was given the Harry recovery mission specifically by Dumbledore, and I have a hard time believing Dumbledore would've left Hagrid unpreparred for such a scenario, which tells me that Dumbledore didn't know what Harry had and had not been told by the Dursley's.  So if Hagrid didn't know, then Dumbledore didn't know, then Arabella Figg didn't know (or wasn't telling).  Had she been set up as his watchdog, so to speak, it's reasonable to expect that Dumbledore would've expected periodical reprts on Harry's well being.  Such reports probably would've included items like "he thinks his mom dies in a car crash."

  Since Dumbledore obviously got no such reports, it's hard to accept that Figg was a spy for him or a protector for Harry in as big of a role as what has been theorized. 
  

me:

  Well, we don't know if DD got reports or not, we just know that Hagrid  didn't know about the Dursleys telling lies to Harry. 

  "I never expected this," he said, in a low, worried voice. "I had no idea, when Dumbledore told me there might be trouble gettin' hold of yeh, how much yeh didn't know. Ah, Harry, I don' know if I'm the right person ter tell yeh -- but someone 3 s gotta -- yeh can't go off ter Hogwarts not knowin'." 
  Hagrid speaks for himself, Dumbledore knows there'll be problems with the Dursleys, he just doesn't tell Hagrid everything, he just asks him to deliver the letter to Harry and help him get his stuff, and warns him there might be problems. So Dumbledore knows for sure. Whether he was informed by Mrs, Figg or it's just a hunch, I don't know. 

  Cheers, Izaskun