Themes in OotP (was Re: Angry Harry in HBP?)

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 119888


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
 
> 
> Pippin:
> Mrs. Figg wasn't an old friend, true. But she could have told Harry 
> that the Order was keeping watch and couldn't let him know 
> more directly because the Ministry would just love to catch them 
> doing magic in front of Muggles. She could have told him that a 
> safe place was being prepared and that he'd be sent for once it 
> was ready.
> 
 
Hickengruendler:

But Harry couldn't have known this. Well, maybe he could, if he had 
realized who the Arabella Dumbledore was talking about at the end of 
GoF really is. But on the other hand, he only knew her as Mrs Figg, 
and since the last name isn't that uncommon in Britain, I don't think 
he necessarily should have made the connection between Arabella Figg 
and Mrs Figg. Especially because of all the other things that were in 
his mind at this point. From his point of view, she was a mad old 
muggle-woman, who invited him for tea, and he couldn't expect her to 
know anything about Dumbledore or Voldemort. Maybe Mrs Figg could 
have given him some better hints, than just inviting him for tea. "I 
really want you to come Harry. I insist on it, it's about something 
that happened last June. I think you know what I mean." Something 
like this.