Harry's Discovery in CoS

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> Celestina:  Just wanted to add a little something  to this that my 
> daughter actually pointed out to me a couple of days ago.  Argus 
> Filch/Arabella Fig. Both are squibs, both have cats, and have the 
> same initials. 

RS: I think it's just JkR having fun, or trying to give us a clue 
that Figg was a squib

> I am one who thinks perhaps Filch would be the one who learns
> magic later in life, after all, he is trying to isn't he? 

RS: I agree, I thought about this when I came across the chapter 
with it in, and it would be good for it to play a part. Who wants a 
magical Filch!

> But not sure about him as the HBP, I would need to see more to
> support that theory. I'm still leaning in the Dumbledore direction 
> for HBP.

I don't think either Filch or Dumbledore are likely to be the HBP, 
at the minute I'm leaning towards whole new character. I thought it 
might be Gryffindor but she said shed written the entire HBP story 
out of CoS, and the thing that now linked the two books had nothing 
to do with the HBP.