Dumbledore's family

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 166528

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kemper <iam.kemper at ...> wrote:
 <SNIP>
> >
> > Goddlefrood:
> >
> > Sorry to put a small crimp in an otherwise d**n fine idea, but
> > I must say, having analysed the chapter "The Hearing" in OotP
> > in some depth recently, I find it unlikely that Mrs. Figg is
> > related to Arabella Fig for the simple reason that it seems,
> > to me at least, probable that one of the members of the
> > Wizengamot would have said something when Dumbledore called
> > on the same Mrs. Figg to testify.
> 
> 
> Kemper now:
> Are you saying that Mrs. Figg is not Arabella Figg?  Doesn't she say
> her name is Arabella Doreen Figg in the chapter you analysed (I 
could
> be wrong, no books at hand). 

Hickengruendler:

I'm not Goddlefrood and therefore I don't want to speak for him 
(her?). But I think this might have been a typo and should have 
read "I find it unlikely that Mrs. Figg is related to Dumbledore", 
because his following argument is the exact reason, why I don't 
believe this. I just think Fudge would have said something 
like "She's Dumbledore's sister and therefore not a reliable 
witness". And if he didn't know at this time, Fudge would probably 
have learnt later, since he said during her hearing, that he wanted 
to investigate, if Figg was really a Squib and from which family she 
was. Or Percy would have mentioned it in his letter to Ron.

Hickengruendler, apologizing to Goddlefrood, if I misread their post