[HPforGrownups] re: Mrs Figg

[Sheryll Townsend]

No: HPFGUIDX 153674

> Hagrid aussie_lol wrote in
>
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/153543>:
> 
> << If we correctly guess major suprises to JKR's
> story, do you
> think she would change what she was going to say
> just to keep
> control of the story -
> (snip)
> Or Arabella Figg with all her cats and taking care
> of Harry every so
> often. Rumours went around she was a witch there to
> protect Harry. >>
> 
Catlady:
> Rowling gave a reading at the Toronto SkyDome in
> 2000. No transcript
> of her Q&A has been posted on-line, but some people
> who were there
> posted their accounts of the event. Those accounts
> said that when
> asked if Arabella Figg, member of 'the old crowd'
> mentioned toward the
> end of GoF when Dumbledore sent Sirius on his
> errand, was related to
> Mrs Figg the babysitter, she said: "Good catch!" and
> agreed they were
> related. (Well, identity is a relationship.) 
> 
> Because she also said that Mrs Figg is a Squib, many
> fans thought that
> Arabella was her neice. When she revealed that the
> next title would be
> HP & the Order of the Phoenix, many fans believed
> that 'the old crowd'
> is the Order of the Phoenix. We eventually turned
> out to be right,
> despite all the people who told us we were jumping
> to a conclusion and
> an Order of the People could be a lot of other
> things.
> 
> My point ('and I do have one') is she wrote Mrs Figg
> in OoP the same
> way she had spoken of Mrs Figg in 2000, which
> doesn't seem like she
> changed her plan.
> 
Sheryll:

*raises hand*

Oh, I was at the SkyDome reading. It's a misconception
that there was a Q&A at that reading, as there wasn't
really. What she did after reading from GoF was tell
us some of the most common questions she'd been asked
by the media and the answers to those questions. IIRC,
none of those questions concerned the storyline, but
were more general questions like whether or not she
thought the books promoted witchcraft. 

I think, and keep in mind that my memory has dimmed
with time, that I wrote up the notes I took at the
event and posted them to the group. They should be in
the archives somewhere, but I've got guests on their
way here in 5 minutes and don't have time to look it
up.

But, no, sorry, no information given on Mrs. Figg at
that time. 

Sheryll, making a rare appearance on Main :)

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