[HPforGrownups] Re: Dudders and the Dementors

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 119674

--- Geoff Bannister <gbannister10 at aol.com> wrote:
> JKR seems to have contradicted herself here. In her website, as
> Jason 
> points out, she says that Squibs can only sense Dementors, not see 
> them.
> 
> However, in OOTP, we have....
> 
> '"Incidentally, can Squibs see Dementors?" he (Fudge) added,
> looking 
> left and right along the bench.
> "Yes, we can!" said Mrs.Figg indignantly.'
> 
> (OOTP "The Hearing" p.131 UK edition)
> 
> If JKR's information on the website is accurate, why should
> Mrs.Figg lie?

Because she's doing her best to save Harry's bacon.  Harry even
thinks she's describing them not as someone who actually saw them but
rather as someone who had had them described TO her.  Probably
Dumbledore coached her.  It's only when she describes the effect it
had on her that the Wizan-whatchamacallit believes her.

I took it as a given that she was lying about seeing them.

Magda


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