McGonagall and Mrs Figg

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 78025

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "aint_no_muggle" 
<issyippon at h...> wrote:
 
> 
> 5) Plus - just a little point hardly worth mentioning - Why does 
Mrs 
> Figg look out for Harry and not some other Squib? Is it prehaps 
> because M.McGonagall (who is a protector of Harry) also got her 
> Sister to help her protect him?
> 

This is IMO a very interesting point. I wondered about this, too. Or 
better, I wondered why it was a squib at all. Mrs Figg might be loyal 
to Dumbledore, but she isn't much of a help, if Harry is attacked. 
Why not plant a witch or a wizard instead to watch over Harry (okay, 
some, like Mundungus are there. But it is Mrs Figg, who is there all 
the time). I thought if she might be Dumbledore's sister, but she 
calls him Dumbledore, instead of Albus. Mrs Figg being McGonnagal's 
sister is an idea, this might even explain why McGonnagal was in 
Little Winging, before Dumbledore told her, that he wanted to give 
Harry to the Dursleys.  

Hickengruendler