revelations from the Edinburgh Festival

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No: HPFGUIDX 110122

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Josh Warren"
<wjwarren4269 at c...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Diane Klopp" <dklopp at p...> 
> wrote:
> > At the Edinburgh Festival, JKRowling has reveled the following:
> > 
> >     * Aberforth Dumbledore is the barman in the Hog's Head
> >     * Dumbledore's patronus is a phoenix
> 
> Ha! So much for some of those questions. ;-)
> 
> >     * Grawp will be more controllable in the sixth book
> >     * We will see a bit more of Rita Skeeter
> >     * There will be a new character called McLagan
> >     * Harry does NOT have a godmother
> > 
> > Also, Petunia is NOT a squib, she is definately muggle-born.
> 
> That's not all... she gave further hints identifying that Petunia is 
> indeed the late-bloomer.
> 
> > She gave two questions for us to think about:
> 
> Oh, let's see... there was also another incident about not giving 
> away any shippy clues as there are quite enough already, but that 
> we'd need to read between the lines.
> 
> *shrugs*
> 
> Josh, who'll worry about posting about those 2 questions after more 
> time to think about it.


At The Leaky Cauldron (specifically, here:
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/MTarchives/004979.html) this is said:
"On the matter of Petunia: I haven't written it down exactly but both
my sister and I agree she did NOT say Petunia is muggle-born. She said
she is a MUGGLE, but implied there is more to Petunia. She didn't put
a lot of emphasis on it, but there was definitely something she didn't
want to reveal."

Just to clarify, as the phrase "muggle-born" implies a wizard from
non-magical parents rather than a non-magical person.

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