The Opening Chapter of Book 6

[danielmorgan322]

No: HPFGUIDX 104929



> Carol:
> Dudley hardly fits the description "late in life." He'll be all of
> seventeen at the end of Book 7 (if he survives). Even Petunia, who 
is
> probably not much older than Lily would be, is no older than, say,
> 45--a late-bloomer, certainly, if she performs magic now, but
> certainly not "late in life." She has an aversion to magic and is 
IMO
> unlikely to perform it--though she does know something about the WW
> and could be an interesting source of information about Lily if she
> chose to speak.
> 
> OTOH, Mrs. Figg has all the qualifications to be the person to do
> magic. As an Order member, she's likely to find herself 
in "desperate
> circumstances." She unquestionably qualifies as being "late in 
life."
> And she knows something about magic and probably could perform it,
> maybe by picking up Harry's dropped wand and shouting a spell as a
> desperate measure. What spells does Petunia know and how likely is 
she
> to pick up Harry's or anyone else's wand? If she could do magic
> without one, she'd have been sent to Hogwarts along with Lily.
> 
> Carol, wondering why people don't see Mrs. Figg as the obvious
> candidate for the position


Now me:

I always asumed that "late in life" in this instance meant that they 
where past Hogwarts acception age. As for Mrs. Figg, I seriously 
doubt that, I dont think she's a big enough character for that, if 
she could do magic, what difference would that make? Nope, 
deffinetly not mrs Figg in my opinion

Morgan