[HPforGrownups] Meeting Arabella (WAS Re: New/Old Friends?)

[Maria Kirilenko]

No: HPFGUIDX 54482


 bboy_mn wrote re Arabella Figg:
> <snip>
> While I think it would be cool for Harry to walk into DADA class and
> find his babysitter there, I'm more inclined to think that it will
> happen over the summer. Perhaps she will ask him to come over on the
> pretense of doing some chores, and when he gets there he will find
> Sirius and/or Remus waiting for him. That would be a pretty cool 
scene
> too.


Marci answered:
Here is one better.  You're right it might happen over the summer, 
but instead of her asking him over to do chores, it will be on the 
one day a year he always goes to Mrs. Figg's house... Dudley's 
birthday.  The Durley's will get rid of him on that day, as usual 
(except for the glorius day he released the boa at the zoo), and he 
will drag his feet, not looking forward to the smell of cabbage and 
looking at pictures of all of her cats.  The door opens, and sitting 
behind her are Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Professor Dumbledore!  
How's that for an opening?

Me:

Nice, but unfortunately Dudley's birthday isn't in the summer. Harry and the Dursleys went to the zoo on Dudley's birthday in PS, and after the boa constrictor episode Uncle Vernon was so mad that he locked Harry up in the cupboard until summer started. That's all in the zoo chapter in PS.

So your scenario doesn't work. I think that bboy's scenario is very likely. Although I'd personally enjoy it more if Harry walked into the DADA classroom. Harry's reaction would be fun to read. It also might spur some questions in Harry's mind - like why exactly was there a witch living so very close to him, and why did she never tell him she wasa  witch. The Dumbledore Tells All (about Arabella <eg>) scene might occur shortly afterward.

Maria,

dead tired and wishing she had the energy to write the Harry/Ginny post that's floating around in her mind begging to be nicely typed up and sent to HPfGU. 



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