Now *that* is interesting

[laura]

No: HPFGUIDX 114869



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dzeytoun" <dzeytoun at c...> 
wrote:

> Well, the problem with this is that JKR has said clearly that 
Petunia 
> is a *Muggle*  Which means she is definitely *not* a half-blood, a 
> witch, or a squib.  This took place at the Edinburgh Book Fair, 
where 
> she said "Petunia is a Muggle, but..."  

now nessa
It's already accepted that 'choice' is a major theme in the HP 
books.  I believe that while Petunia is in fact a witch, she 
*chooses* to be a muggle, for whatever reason, so that JKR's quote 
would read, should she finish the sentence:
"Petunia is a Muggle, but... **has magical powers**"  

I may be (probably am) incorrect, but JKR has never said that being 
magical excludes one from being a muggle.  Witches and Wizards can't 
comprehend an individual not wanting, or not wanting to use, the 
powers given to them. They imagine that *every* magical individual 
would use the powers given to them, and gladly.  The point I'm 
trying to make, very inarticulately, is that, Petunia doesn't use 
her powers, therefore is a muggle.

nessa  xxx