[HPforGrownups] Re: Arabella Figg & cabbage

[Maria Kirilenko]

No: HPFGUIDX 49927


People have been speculating on whether or not Arabella Figg was using Polyjuice poition to look like an old lady, and if she's really a lovely woman in her thirties (around Snape/Sirius/Lupin's age <winkwinknudgenudge>).
I'm convinced that she isn't using Polyjuice Potion for the simple reason that there is the Aging Potion which is obviously much more convenient and not as dangerous, and nobody would recognize her anyway if she were an old lady. 
What I'm more interested in is this - are we *sure* she's old - in the sense, does she really look old? The only time it's mentioned that she is an old lady is in the beginning of PS, and Harry is only 10 then. At that age children usually can't correctly estimate older people's ages (actually, I don't remember thinking that my parents or my aunts and uncles were ancient when I was 10, but judging from my experience with my younger cousins right now, they call anyone who looks about the same age as their parents as very old). What I'm not sure about is if that particular section of the book is entirely Harry's POV. If it is, then Arabella Figg could be *any* age. If not and JKR is giving us a correct picture, there is still the option of that Aging Potion.
I would be glad if she were to turn out young because there is an awful lack of available (and unavailable) ladies for our older threesome of bachelors, but I'm far from being sure that it's going to happen.
Maria



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