Is JkR about to reveal?

[Eustace_Scrubb]

No: HPFGUIDX 110428

Eustace_Scrubb:
> >snipped<
> Can DD have given her the ability to tap into some
> recessive magic gene in a case of dire emergency?...
> Maybe she doesn't turn out to be a full-fledged witch.

Then Snow theorized:
<snips>
> I believe so with a big emphasis on believe.
> 
> Dumbledore and Petunia formally or informally made a pact by doing 
> something together or something for each other. Does that sound  
> about right? 
<numerous snips of good speculation>

> I'm going to harp again on 
> Petunia's surgically clean kitchen announced in most of the books. 
> This one is a far leap but could Petunia have asked Dumbledore for 
> Lily's wand and possibly a bit of magic to go with it? I told you
it 
> was a far stretch but
 I could see the most powerful wizard
alive 
> accomplishing something to this degree especially if it was the 
> contingency for Petunia taking Harry. Petunia acted a bit jealous
of 
> her sister's special talents and may have secretly wanted to have 
> those talents herself. Petunia would only be able to use this magic 
> in secret to do household chores or whatever while Vernon was at  
> workbut one day little Dudley walked in and saw what she was doing.
 
> Oh! so that's what little duddykins was seeing when the dementor 
> attacked. We all know how scared he is of magic. Couldn't resist 
> putting that last one in. 

Eustace_Scrubb again:
Well, that's most interesting!  So you think Petunia's been doing
magic but sweeping the evidence under the rug (or just scourgifying
it, rather)?

It could make sense.  And then something really bad happens and she
ends up doing some really powerful DADA in dire circumstances?  Saving
Dudley and Harry from Goyle Sr., perhaps?

Hmmm...this is all pretty believable...but I still wonder whether
anyone--even a wizard as powerful as Dumbledore could enable a muggle
to do magic, either for mundane or really important reasons.  I can't
begin to theorize on that one, but I hope someone can!

Cheers,

Eustace_Scrubb