Harry's Wand - not a coincidence?

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No: HPFGUIDX 78818

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "erinellii" <erinellii at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "slgazit" <slgazit at s...> 
wrote:
> 
> > I am willing to bet that
> > wizard made glasses, monocles and the like do a lot more than just
> > correct eyesight. For instance, Madam Bones' monocle (OoP, "The
> > Hearing") is probably used by her as a sort of truth potion,
> > otherwise, why would she be so quick to believe such a strange
> > witness as Mrs. Figg?
> 
> 
> 
>   But Mrs Figg lied, didn't she? If the monocle is a truth potion, 
> it's not a very good one.  Mrs. Figg didn't actually see the 
> dementors like she claimed- remember the way she stumbled over how 
> they moved?  She certainly didn't see them attack Dudley, she 
wasn't 
> even there at the start of the attack, she arrived afterwards.  The 
> impression I got was that squibs, like muggles, can't see dementors 
> at all, only feel them, and that Arabella had been coached on what 
to 
> say.
> 
> Erin

Mrs Figg did not lie, she did see them. Right after the attack when 
she came running up to Harry, and Harry starts to put away his wand, 
she tells him to keep it out as there may be MORE OF THEM. Then when 
dung reappears, Figg tells him there were Dementors in the area.
Fran