[HPforGrownups] Re: Lily’s grandparents -Squib Defined.

[Steven Spencer]

No: HPFGUIDX 110074


> Magda thinks differently:
> Actually I think the late blooming magic-user will be Petunia and she
> will use it in a frantic burst of motherliness because Dudley and
> Harry are being menaced again.  It would be one of those moments of
> dramatic irony that she does the same thing as her "freak" sister to
> protect her child.  And I'm still half-convinced that she's the one
> who broke Aunt Marge's wine glass in POA.
>
> If it isn't Petunia, I'd like it to be Filch just so he can have some
> payback for all those years of cleaning up after dungbombs.
>
>
> Kemper agrees:
> I think you got it right, Magda.  I posted (108486) similarly, though
> no one responded to it.  But, if it's not Petunia, then I hope it is
> neither Filch nor Figg.  This obviously cuts the list down a bit.
> But I don't think JKR would have the Squibs develop magic, it would
> water down one, maybe more, of her themes.
> Also, I just really want it to be Petunia.
>

Terpnurse agrees as well:
I'm with both of you. A squib, I would imagine, would spend a good part 
of their childhood *trying* to do magic, to imitate their otherwise 
magical families. Clearly Filch continues to try magic with no avail 
with his Quik Spell course. In my mind, that would rule out both Figg 
and Filch.

Petunia, on the other hand, has fought hard to squelch it. She likely 
wishes her sister had squelched it, and she tried her hardest to 
squelch it out of Harry. People who sublimate their inner selves tend 
to be the most fervent in trying to get others to sublimate those same 
drives. I rather suspect that Petunia *does* have some trace of magic. 
And since magic appears so closely linked with emotions and one's 
emotional state, I think Magda hit the nail on the head when she said 
that Petunia would work magic in a burst of motherliness toward Dudley.