Petunia and love for Lily? NOT

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 137268

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jjjjjuliep" <jjjjjulie at a...> 
wrote:
 
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> http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/news_view.cfm?id=80
> J K Rowling at the Edinburgh Book Festival
> Sunday 15 August 2004
> 
> Is Aunt Petunia a Squib?
> 
> Good question. No, she is not, but—[Laughter]. No, she is not a 
> Squib. She is a Muggle, but—[Laughter]. You will have to read the 
> other books. You might have got the impression that there is a 
little 
> bit more to Aunt Petunia than meets the eye, and you will find out 
> what it is. She is not a squib, although that is a very good guess. 
> Oh, I am giving a lot away here. I am being shockingly indiscreet.
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> 
> JKR has made it abundantly clear that 1.  Muggles cannot do magic, 
> and 2.  Petunia is a Muggle. 

Hickengruendler:

I do not think that Petunia is the one who will do magic late in 
life. However, whoever it is (even if it was Merope, who was thought 
to be a Squib), their status has to change. I mean, it is either a 
muggle or a squib, who does magic late in life, and once they have 
done it, they aren't a muggle or a Squib anymore. Therefore I 
wouldn't rule Petunia out.
 
> 
> Second, I think it's pretty clear with Book 6 that Merope is the 
> person how uses magic late in life.  The magic late in life comment 
> goes back to 1999:
> 
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> http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/1999/0399-
> barnesandnoble.html
> Barnes and Noble interview, March 19, 1999
> 
> 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? By the way, I loved meeting you, and hearing you 
speak, 
> when you came to Anderson's in Naperville. I can hardly wait until 
> you tour again. 
> 
> Ahhh! I loved the event at Anderson's. It was one of my favorites. 
> That is completely true. 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. 
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> 
> Merope was thought to be a Squibb; we learn she is not.  It is the 
> magic she does which is the pivotal point for the entire book; 
> without her late magic there is no Tom Riddle/Voldemort, and 
without 
> Tom Riddle/Voldemort, there is no series.
> 

Hickengruendler:

But would you call Merope's situation desperate circumstances? You 
could say that she was in desperate circumstances, when she was 
abused by her family. And she was also in desperate circumstances 
after Tom left her and she was pregnant with his child. However, 
those were the times when she did not do any magic. She only did 
manage some magic to bewitch Tom, and however madly she might have 
been in love, I wouldn't count her situation in this point as 
desperate. To me, it sounds as if someone is doing magic to protect 
themselves from a great danger.