Moody/Figg twins?

[mclellyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 92875

> > 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"
> > 
> > Alistor and Arabella - the batty ol' Moody twins.  

> 
> 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.

Gadfly again:
Seems strange for JKR to describe hair as "with gray hair" gray 
hair!  After I made this post I wondered if JKR repeatedly called 
Umbrage "toad-like" on purpose to get our brains used to seeing a 
description over and over hoping her reader would not notice when she 
started describing two different characters in the same way.  Then 
she could slyly make a connection between two characters like 
Mundungus Fletcher/Crookshanks and Arabella Figg/Alistor Moody.