JKR's website update - YES., YES, YES. :-)/ could be spoilers

[kchuplis]

No: HPFGUIDX 145618

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at y...> 
wrote:
The person most likely to "perform
> magic *late in life* *under desperate circumstances*" is IMO Mrs.
> Figg, who grew up with a knowledge of magic but unable to perform it.
> She knows what a wand is for and knows the incantations for certain
> spells. There's a vestige of magic in her or she couldn't communicate
> with cats. 

I thought this too as she seems pretty deeply involved with the Order 
for a "squib". She is one of the first named by Dumbledore when he 
orders "the old gang" activated. She certainly knew the dementors were 
there and it is said muggles cannot see them (although I don't know 
that "squib" really equals "muggle").

kchuplis