Moody/Figg twins?

[capehoneysuckle]

No: HPFGUIDX 92850

> Gadfly McLellyn writes:
> Grizzled gray hair.  I've just seen another fleeting commonality 
> between characters.  Seems like JKR likes to do this, drop these 
> common traits in what seems mundane parts of the story that you go 
> back and say why didn't I see it before?  In Dudley Demented chapter 
> of OOTP p19 of the US version:
> 
> "Mrs. Figg, their batty old neighbor, came panting into sight.  Her 
> grizzled gray hair was escaping from its hairnet"
> 
> Then two chapters later in The Advance Guard chapter on p47 it says:
> "Mad-Eye Moody, who had long grizzled gray hair"
> 
> Allistar and Arebella - the batty ol' Moody twins.  Maybe that's why 
> Mrs. Figg knows Dumbledore so well?  Would make her a very trusted 
> member of the Order.  With a auror for a brother, it would explain 
> why she knows so much about the wizard world.
> 
> Wotcha think?

Honey:
Since "grizzled" means "with gray hair", it is not too surprising that
any of the older characters might be described (somewhat redundantly)
with these adjectives, without any special meaning at all.