TOP 10 LIST OF WHO COULD LEARN MAGIC LATE IN LIFE

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 68977

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Susan Smith" 
<atroposgryffin at y...> wrote:
> Who will learn magic late in life?  Also, does learn mean "first" 
> learn or learn "more" magic.  Too, how are we to construe the 
meaning 
> of the word "late"-it could imply someone very old or middle-aged 
or 
> could simply mean someone older than the normal 11 y.o. beginning 
> first year student.
> 

Hi AG,
I have to disagree with your picks. I have a Top Five list.

1. Mrs Figg, her development as a character so far, to me indicates 
that she has the fortitude to give a spell, she has seen someone do, 
a go, and I think the determined spirit to carry it off if need be.

2. Petunia, I am not sure she *is* a squib but her character seems, 
to me, to be like someone who would have a little "secret magic" that 
she prefers not to acknowlege in herself.

3. Dudley, for me this is a clutch at some very thin straws, though.

4. Filch, he seems a little too grounded in physical things to ever 
actually change his failure at magic even for a brief shining moment, 
but, stranger things have happened.

5. The Weasley accountant, because I simply cannot see another 
character who fits the bill for me I guess the only other choice is 
one we know nothing about.

Now my Top three people it wont be, but may seem to be.

1. Dolores Umbridge, she a complete incompetent in her office, yes. 
But I am sure the cruciatus was not a bluff, and I think she 
performed as many as three different spells on the centaurs.

2. Vernon Dursley, I just don't think he's got it in him at all.

3. Hagrid, He is already magical and doesn't need desperate 
circumstances to pull off an, albeit second class, spell.

  Valky