Dudley a wizard?

[a_reader2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 75681


> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lady Luck" <lucchaser at y...> 
> wrote:
> > Supose Dudley turns out to be a wizard, how do you think Vernon 
> and 
> > Petunia is going to react to that?
> 
> Me: [Claire ]
> I personally think Dudley is well named--he's a "dud" at pretty 
much 
> everything except bullying (which is why he's so good at boxing).  
> I doubt very much he's going to be a wizard.  Having said that, 
> though, JKR rather delights in turning ones theories upside down.  
> However, I would hope he wouldn't; it does give a leg up, finally, 
> to Harry in their relationship.


CW: 
I agree that Dudley is unlikely to be a wizard, but I did think he 
had a point in the opening scenes in OoP, when he says to 
Harry 'Think you're a big man carrying that thing, don't you ?', 
referring to Harry's wand and its powers. In a way, Harry's magical 
abilities give him the same unfair advantages over Duds, that Dud has 
over the poor terrified kids he beats up. There seems to be something 
unresolved here about how Harry should act in the Muggle world. 
Probably he should learn not to rely on magic, but aim for the kind 
of personal authority that Lupin has, which is unconnected with his 
magic skills, but more dependent on personality. As a typical 
teenager, Harry is quite a long way from understanding this as an 
option, and I thought JKR was very effective in showing that really, 
a wand was just another sort of gun, in the context of holding a 
threat over Dudley. Obviously, Harry goes on to use it to save Duds 
life, but he would otherwise really like to use it to hex him into 
eternity.. not a solution, as countless conflicts worldwide have 
proved.