Old Firm

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady@wicca.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 53031

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Ffred <manawydan at n...> wrote:
> 
> But of course that's not yet established. My own little speculation
> on that point is that Arabella, Albus, and Mundungus were at 
> Hogwarts at the same time and that they were close friends at that 
> time and since - hence the "old firm".

IIRC, it's "old gang".

It has been asserted that the few words Albus says at the first 
Arrival FeastL "Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!" will turn out to be 
meaningful in later books, not just a passing joke. One speculation 
(which I personally consider madly unlikely) is that they were the 
nicknames of a Moony-Wormtail-Padfoot-Prongs type student clique that 
Albus had been a member of. Further elaborated to suggest that the 
members were Albus, his brother Aberforth, Arabella, and Alastor 
Moody. If the fourth member had been Mundungus Fletcher, that would 
save them from being named "The Four A's".
> 
> But here's a further piece of wild speculation.
> which means that Mrs Figg wasn't necessarily born with than name.
> What if she is Harry's grandmother or great grandmother

Then Albus couldn't have told McGonagall that the loathsome Dursleys 
"are all the family he has left". Which also rules out all those 
suggestions that Albus is Harry's grand-father, great-grandfather, or 
great-great-grandfather.