"Late Bloomer" Magic

[mmccarty at berkshire.rr.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 22124

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Mae Silverpaws" <MaeDaWitch at h...> wrote:
> >So, if it's in the past who could she mean?  We only see one adult 
with
> >limited magical abilities:  Hagrid.  But since he attended 
Hogwarts, he
> >doesn't meet the 'late-bloomer' criteria.
> >
> >I'm at a loss.  Any ideas?
> >
> >Kelly the Yarn Junkie
> 
> 
> Well the first person I think of is Flitch but he doesn't do magic 
and Harry 
> found that correspondence course in the file cabinet so I guess that 
lets 
> him off.....
> Mae
> _

  I'm quite the newbie here so forgive me if my post comes through 
here a little weird, but I personally believe that the person in 
question IS Flitch. I think the correspondence course  is there to 
inform both Harry and the reader that Flitch is a squib, with little 
to no magical talent. But the fact that he's at Hogwarts, even in the 
role of caretaker, leads me to believe that JKR has bigger plans for 
him. he was the first person I thought of when that rumor originally 
came out. I'm reading into it that in order for someone to "Manage to 
do magic" later in life, they have to be trying unsucessfully to do it 
in the first place. This is what disqualifies Petunia in my mind, and 
Hagrid has show previously that he is capeable of limited amounts of 
magic, with his pink umbrella. Just my opinions on the matter though 
:-)
Katie McCarty
most like Hermione
64% obsessed


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