Magic late in life

[lupinwolf2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 68701

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "M.Clifford" 
<valkyrievixen at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Florentine Maier" 
> <florentinemaier at h...> wrote:
> > Do you still remember the rumour about "someone becoming able to 
do 
> > magic late in their life"? So I guess that was a prediction for 
Oop 
> > that did _not_ come true. But where did it come from in the first 
> > place?
> > Can we still expect someone to turn magic late in their life in 
> book 
> > 6 or 7?
> > 
> > Florentine
> 
> I know where it came from but I can't remember the link sorry, 
> another member may provide the exact transcript location for you. 
> Until they do, I will let you know that JK herself told us in reply 
> to a question about whether a squib could become magical.
> She replied in a manner thus, A squib can't become a wizard but one 
> squib character in the books does manage to do some magic late in 
> life in desperate circumstances.
> 
> Valky

I have long been under the impression that the person finding they 
can do magic in real life is one Vernon Dursley.

There ae a few things that lead me to this conclusion.

1.) There seems to be some un-necessary stress on (Hagrid, 
paraphrased) "and who's gonna stop me, a great muggle like you?" in 
SS. 

In CoS we find Hagrid saying (paraphrase) "they may kick me out and 
force me to live as a muggle".

While they are generally unrelated, it stands to reason that if 
Hagrid is genuinely fearing "being made to live as a muggle" (good 
luck Hagrid), that it IS possible for that person to have their 
memory repressed.

2.) By far the more credible of the rationalizations is in SS where 
Hagrid and Vernon are facing off (Hagrid telling Harry for the first 
time he is a wizard) at one point where Vernon is feeling especially 
scared he "mutters something like mimblewimble". 

Now, in the Harry Potter first video game, "mimblewimble" is a spell 
used to disrupt the very next spell. The next spell in SS??? Hagrid 
gives Dudley a pigs tail. However he (paraphrase) "meant to turn him 
into a whole pig".

There is more to Vernon than we know. While OOTP shows the Howler 
from Dumbledore addressed to Petunia, it could easily 
pertain "remember my last" to something to do with Vernon. Despite 
her horribleness to Harry, she does love Vernon. Its possible she 
does not wish him to be the same sort of freak that her sister was.