Mrs Figg, cabbage and Polyjuice Potion

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 111077

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cindy" <aoibhneach1 at y...> wrote:
> I was wondering - this may have been discussed before, I don't know - 
> but why does Mrs. Figg's house smell of cabbage (SS p.22), and the 
> Polyjuice potion tastes like cabbage (CoS p.216)?  Could Mrs Figg be 
> using polyjuice for some reason?  Or maybe, I've missed something in 
> reading the books (not as familiar with them as most people here).
> 
> Cindy


b_boymn:

That's a fair conclusion to jump to, and one that has been supported
by many people. In fact, many thousands of post back there was a well
supported theory that Mrs. Figg was actually a beautiful young maiden
who was using Polyjuice as a disguise while she kept her secret watch
over Harry.

I have the same question now that I posed back then. The first and
most significant is .... WHY? To what end, what purpose could it
possibly serve, how could the story in anyway be improved or advanced
by some one using Polyjuice as a disguise. Certainly, an batty old
lady playing herself makes more sense that a beautiful young maiden
wasting 11 years of her life pretending to be Harry's babysitter.

And why disguise by Polyjuice, it only last an hour, that has to be
horribly inconvinient. True Barty!Moody did it, but he was generally
NUTS. 

Don't take my response to personally, you're ideas are always welcome,
 and will alway be treated fairly. Remember, this is a theory that had
and may still have many strong supporters. 

Although, none of the have been able to answer to my  satisfaction the
basic quesiton of Why? If I'm proven wrong, I will be more than happy
to eat my electrons.

Steve/b_boymn (was bboy_mn and for a while asian_lovr2, but was never
Lexicon Steve)