Colonel Fubster

[mitchbailey82 <MITCHBAILEY82@HOTMAIL.COM>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49228

Hi - I've been reading POA again! (It's my favourite so I've read it 
the most times out of all of the books) and Chapter 2 always 
intrigues me. What intrigues me most is the character Colonel 
Fubster. He's mention 4 times in this chapter without even being 
physically there:

(Marge about her dogs)

"Oh I've got Colonel Fubster managing them"

(Later in the same conversation)

"He's retired now, good for him to have something to do. But I 
couldn't leave poor old ripper. He pines if he's away from me."

... Or Colonel Fubster hates old Ripper too :-)

(After the wine glass shatters)

"'Not to worry ' grunted Aunt Marge, mopping her face with her 
napkin. 'Must have squeezed it too hard. Did the same thing at 
Colonel Fubster's the other day. No need to fuss, Petunia, I have a 
very firm grip...'"

This sentence has got me thinking I know it has been discussed that 
Harry might not have caused the glass to shatter but I take it he did 
based mainly on the following quote: "It had been a long time since 
he'd lost control and made something explode."
Now if magic made Marge's glass shatter at the Dursley's, could magic 
have made it explode at Colonel Fubster's? Could Marge have opened 
her mouth and said something wrong and upset Fubster? Is it possible 
that he's a wizard and that he made her glass shatter on that 
occasion?

(The last mention of Fubster before Marge is blown up)

" You get that with dogs. I had Colonel Fubster drown one last year. 
Ratty little thing it was. Weak. Underbread."

I like to think that Fubster just told Marge he drowned it and the 
poor little tyke is still alive ;-) but that's beside the point!!

So in one chapter and without him actually being present we learn 
quite a lot about Fubster, we know;

* He's retired.
* He lives near Aunt Marge (who lives in the country).
* He looks after Marge's dog (apart from Ripper) so he must be 
reasonably good with dogs.
* Aunt Marge asked him to drown one of her pups.
* Marge goes to visit him.

So for a character we've never met in 'the flesh' we know he quite 
well - in fact there have probably been characters that we have met 
in the flesh that we know less about!

I just wonder if will meet Colonel Fubster in the future – and could 
he be a wizard?  - Lets just hope that this doesn't mean that will 
meet Marge again too ;-)


Michelle