Uncle Vernon a wizard?

[Susan Atherton]

No: HPFGUIDX 50479

Rob wrote:
"Smelting stick"? I don't remember that part or have the book to look at
right now but if you talking about what I think you are I thought Vernon was
refering to a cricket bat from Smeltings the school. Hard to hide a wand in
that.


~dusting off her Enid Blyton knowledge~ actually, I believe the Smeltings stick was a "knobbly stick" if I remember the canon correctly (no book) "for hitting the other boys with when the teachers weren't looking". This does not sound to me like a cricket bat; rather, it sounds more like a throwback from the old-fashioned days of young men carrying walking sticks for no reason other than fashion, rather than because they needed help to walk. Well, that and hitting each other on the shins, of course.

Either way, I'm pretty sure it's not a cricket bat. But then, I'm also pretty sure a wand has never set foot inside the Dursley household until young Harry's, so I should probably keep out of this theory!

Susan
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