[HPforGrownups] Re: Very interestin tidbit I found while checking the chat archives

[Melanie Brackney]

No: HPFGUIDX 22121


I also based it on that B&N interview where she says someone will
manifest magic late in life: why not Petunia?  We're not overloaded
with Muggle characters, Lily was a witch, makes sense to me.  JKR
always foreshadows later major events with smaller references first:
Polyjuice Potion, duelling, etc.  

She's a cunning writer that way.

 

It is very plausible the more I think about it.  In fact, I remember reading an interview in which one child asked if all characters have a little magic in them and she specifically said something about the Dursley's.  I think our little late bloomer is Dudley...I base this soley on this one statement that she made

 

A question also surfaced surrounding Harry Potter’s non-magical relatives, the Muggles who have always tortured or mistreated Harry, because of their fear of magic. For revenge, Harry has magically tortured his cousin Dudley. "I like torturing them," said Rowling. "You should keep an eye on Dudley. It’s probably too late for Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon. I feel sorry for Dudley. I might joke about him, but I feel truly sorry for him because I see him as just as abused as Harry. Though, in possibly a less obvious way. What they are doing to him is inept, really. I think children recognize that. Poor Dudley. He’s not being prepared for the world at all, in any reasonable or compassionate way, so I feel sorry for him. But there’s something funny about him, also. The pig’s tail was irresistible." 

Now this is doesn't really say anything at all about magic...but I mean It seems to me that JKR atleast recongizes there is obviously more to Dudley than meets the eye.  Knowing his parents, they would have made certain that in way will Dudley ever posssess magical abilities..maybe going as far as having his name removed from the quill at Hogwarts.  Unless, of course, his abilities were not able to be sensed a birth and layed dormant until..well...much later.

Melanie








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