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

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 119894


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hickengruendler" 
<hickengruendler at y...> wrote:
 
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. 

Geoff:
Not sure I agree that Figg is not uncommon in the UK. My name is 
fairly uncommon - it is a North country name but in my local 
telephone directory which covers sizeable area, there are 13 
Bannisters to 5 Figgs. And I don't recall a Figg in the several 
thousand pupils who passed through my classroom.