Dursleys - Wizards

[Ali]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Marita Jan <maritajan at y...> 
wrote:
>>> I'm really having a hard time with this concept, and I guess I 
missed it's origination.  

<<snip>>

I just don't see it.  With all the mention of things that 
just "happen" around Harry before he got his letter, there's no 
mention of anything  remotely similar occurring to Dudders.  And if 
there's anyone who would find a self-serving use for any sort of 
magical powers, it would be him.
 
 So....fill me in.  Where does this theory come from and why?>>>

Ali responds:

I know that I've been banging the "Dudley is a wizard" drum for 
quite a long time. I posted this message last October but wrote it a 
few months before that:
 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/83747


I shall be disappointed if Mrs Figg does find magic late in life as 
I don't feel it will add much to the story. But then, think about 
the time we all wasted upon finding out that the DADA teacher in OoP 
was a woman: nobody guessed that right, did they? In reality that 
piece of information was not important, and so it is more than 
possible that Mrs Figg will suddenly be able to transfigure a 
teabag, but it won't be important to the overall story. 

Ali