Petunia, remember my last prophecy! (Petunia latebloomer)

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 101316

psychobirdgirl wrote:

I would say that the best candidates would be one of the squibs we 
know, because they are the only ones that could be late bloomers in 
the sense that they expected to be magical but weren't, other people 
could be magical but so weak they don't know they are magical, or in 
denial,(i.e. the muggles we are familiar with), and any muggle we 
don't know just being magical all of a sudden doesn't make sense to 
me with the information we have been given( but you never know with 
JKR), so my bet would be on a squib, most probably Mrs. Figg in 
defense of Harry at the big showdown on Privet in the beginning of 
book 6.

vmonte responds:

Remember the howler that Petunia got? The howler that spoke in a 
scary eerie voice that Harry did not recognize as DD. Trelawny speaks 
in another voice when she is prophesizing, maybe this is DD's Seer 
voice?

I remember when DD told Harry that he had been thinking of removing
divinity from the school altogether--until he met Trelawny. (Why 
remove the subject you say? Well maybe because divinity is ambiguous, 
non-specific, often missinterpreted, and usually revealed after-the-
fact.)  

What if DD has a couple prophecy orbs himself? The same ambiguous,
and non direct kind of prophecies like Trelawny.

There is one at the house of the child born in the seventh month who
will...blah blah blah...develop magic late in life...this one will be
protected by the child who can vanquish the dark lord...blah blah
blah...on this non-specific ambiguous date and time...

This prophecy is the reason Petunia agreed to take in Harry. DD's
howler reminds Petunia of the prophecy.

Here is the thing, I think that Petunia has assumed that the prophecy
is about Dudley, but it is really about herself. Petunia lived with
a witch, her sister. She would know the early signs. She has been
trying to keep Dudley from getting angry and upset his whole life in
fear that he would reveal his magical side. 

The problem is that the prophecy is really about her --- HAHA.

vivian