Magic later in life

[Dicentra spectabilis]

No: HPFGUIDX 106042

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cathy Drolet" <cldrolet at s...>
wrote:
> Would someone please be so kind as to point me to where JKR said
someone would be getting magical powers later in life?  I've been
looking through the interviews at Leaky Cauldron, but that could take
a century.  


It's the March 1999 Barnes and Noble interview, found at
Quick-Quote-Quill.org:

http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/1999/0399-barnesandnoble.html

Q: Will there be, or have there been, any "late blooming" students in
the school who come into their magic potential as adults, rather than
as children? 

A: No, is the answer. In my books, magic almost always shows itself in
a person before age 11; however, there is a character who does manage
in desperate circumstances to do magic quite late in life, but that is
very rare in the world I am writing about. 

--Dicentra, who found it in about 20 minutes