Petunia not the latebloomer, but magic nonetheless

[Susan]

No: HPFGUIDX 101391

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "psychobirdgirl" 
<psychobirdgirl at y...> wrote:
> I think that both Petunia and Dudley could be magical and yet not 
> have the "magic late in life" label apply to them, simply because 
if 
> they developed their magic early on and either hid it or had it 
> hidden from them then they might be using magic later in the series 
> and not be breaking J.K.R.'s statement that people are either magic 
> or not, and also without them being the latebloomers that J.K.R. 
> promised.  The same could be said of Hagrid, he was magical to 
begin 
> with but was expelled so he is just not well practiced but could 
use 
> magic in the coming war.  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.
> 
> 
> psychobirdgirl

K, Hope no one else has already said this, but IMHO, Petunia is _not_ 
magical, and neither is Dudders.  Let's just say, as others have 
proposed, that Petunia's hatred for Lily stems from jealousy.  Lily 
got accepted into Hogwarts _because_ she was a witch.  If Petunia was 
magical, where's her invitation?  Surely she'd want to go to Hogwarts 
as well, simply so she could gain her parents admiration as well.  I 
could see her going and being sorted into Slytherine, why not?

And if she was a squib, well, I'm not recalling anything anywhere in 
canon that says that Hogwarts is selective in who they invite to 
school.  I always assumed that people like Filch and Mrs. Figg went 
to Howarts, and _that's_ how they discovered that they were squibs, 
b/c they were horrible at magic.

As for Dudders, the same applies, really.  If Dudders had any magic 
in that plump body of his, where's _his_ invitation?

So, I'm with you on the possibility of Mrs. Figg, and I could also 
see Hagrid practicing/using magic to fight in the war, though I'm not 
sure he actually qualifies, as he's not exactly a late bloomer, just 
uneducated.

Susan (teilani)