Dudley Dursley? (WAS: Re: Is Mark Evans the half blood prince?)

[tracy]

No: HPFGUIDX 103898

Has anyone considered, and I know I'm new here, that perhaps Dudley 
Dursley is the half-blood prince? I read something in the Lexicon 
this morning that triggered this thought. Bear with me.

Remember the howler that Petunia gets when Vernon tries to throw 
Harry out of the house in OoP? something about,"....remember the pact 
that you made when you took the boy in" or something like that. What 
if, as Lexicon supposes, Dudley did display some magical prowess. 
Given the iffy state of "half bloods vs pure bloods," (Think about 
it, Voldemort is a half blood, born of a witch and a muggle, but JK 
also refers to Harry as a half blood, but both his parents were 
magical people. Lily just happened to be a mud blood, but she 
certainly had powers, so half blood doesn't, in the strictest terms, 
really apply to Harry, as Dumbledore infers at the end of OoP).

What could that pact be? We know that Petunia isn't magical, or not 
magical enough to get sent to Hogwarts. Or is she? She seems to know 
more about the magical world then she lets on, as we see in OoP. We 
know that Vernon despises anything magical, so for Dudley to display 
any magical tendencies, it would probably drive Vernon right out of 
the family, much in the way Tom Riddle Sr. abandoned his wife. Maybe 
this thought terrified Petunia, this...similarity to Voldemort's 
family history. She obviously knows Voldemort's story.

If Petunia is, indeed, magical, and posing as a muggle, a possibility 
raised in Lexicon, then wouldn't that make Dudley a half-blood? We 
already know he is treated like a Prince by his mother. Maybe even 
Vernon is aware, and that is the reason that Petunia and Vernon 
scatter and bend to his whims every time he starts a temper, fearing 
that Dudley's magical abilities will "appear" if they don't give him 
his way and come him down. They certainly seem to be at his mercy.

So, your thoughts on this?

Sincerely,
the new kid