The Opening Chapter of Book 6

[tookishgirl_111]

No: HPFGUIDX 104946

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "danielmorgan322" 
<danielmorgan191 at h...> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Carol:
> > Dudley hardly fits the description "late in life." He'll be all of
> > seventeen at the end of Book 7 (if he survives). Even Petunia, who is
> > probably not much older than Lily would be, is no older than, say,
> > 45--a late-bloomer, certainly, if she performs magic now, but
> > certainly not "late in life." 

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> > OTOH, Mrs. Figg has all the qualifications to be the person to do
> > magic. As an Order member, she's likely to find herself in "desperate
> > circumstances." She unquestionably qualifies as being "late in life."

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> Morgan:
> 
> I always asumed that "late in life" in this instance meant that they 
> where past Hogwarts acception age. As for Mrs. Figg, I seriously 
> doubt that, I dont think she's a big enough character for that, if 
> she could do magic, what difference would that make? Nope, 
> definitely not Mrs Figg in my opinion.


IMHO it's Aunt Petunia...there's really no one else I could think 
of.  Mrs. Figg already had her chance in OOP,  Dudley also had his 
chance in OOP (I don't think the Dud part of his name is an accident) 
Filch is a possibility (he's been studying since at least COS) but 
I'd think if he was going to learn any magic he'd have done it by 
now.  Uncle Vernon strikes me as hopeless...but Aunt Petunia seems 
primed to explode with magic.  

Her sister was a witch, assumably a highly accomplished one, so that 
already seems to increase the possibility.  Then there's the 
increasing pressure on her - dementors, Dumbledore, family arguements 
(Vernon v Harry, Dudley v Harry, and herself v Harry - though 
seemingly to a lesser extent than the other two), etc.  Sometime 
tells me that should #4 Privet Drive come under attack once again it 
would be Petunia who would instinctually and subconciously revert to 
magic to save her family - not that Harry wouldnt help (assuming he 
was there).

Tooks - who thinks all of Aunt Petunia's anger towards Harry is 
actually latent jealousy she had towards Lilly's magic abilities.