[HPforGrownups] Re: squibs vs. muggles

[heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 57528

> I didn't think of Neville. Yeah, could be him. I
> thought Seamus 
> because of his frequent explosions. Anyway we'll
> soon find out.


Uh oh! Movie contamination! In the books, Seamus
doesn't have the same problems with explosions that he
has in the movies. It's Neville, iirc, who mangles his
feather in Flitwick's class, not Seamus. 

Also, here at HPfGU, people appreciate original
citations to interviews, not pointers to websites, no
matter how well done, that don't have links to
original sources. Emerson does a rgeat job with
Mugglenet, but a citation to the actual 1999 Barnes &
Noble chat in which JKR said, " In my books, magic
almost always shows itself in a person before age 11;
however, there is a character who does manage in
desperate circumstances to do magic quite late in
life, but that is very rare in the world I am writing
about..." and provided a link to
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.net/bnchat2.shtml where
the chat transcript is posted, it would've been much
more appreciated. 

Heidi

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