Petunia and love for Lily? NOT

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 137398

vmonte:
> Merope? I'm confused, wasn't she a witch already? Didn't she die
> young? Besides, why would JKR be laughing the way she is in the
> quote if she was talking about Merope?

jujube:
She's not. You have 1. confused the two quotes and 2. taken them to
somehow refer to the same person. If you read them both again, in
their entirety, and in the context of my post
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/137265) you will
see that in one interview, from last year, JKR says categorically
that Petunia is a Muggle. This is the interview where she laughs. I
also quoted an interview from 1999 where she made the "magic late in
life" comment.

vmonte:
Sorry, you're right. The first part was just a question in general 
about Merope. I thought that Merope was a witch not a squib, so I 
didn't understand why you thought she wasn't (I was not attacking you, 
but by your angry tone you must have took my comment as an attack).

I've now reread the Merope scene in question and I still think that 
Merope is not the late bloomer JKR is talking about, but that's just 
my opinion. 

The other comment about JKR laughing that I made IS weird (I probably 
should not post again when taking sudafed which makes me very sleepy).
That did not come out right, sorry. That comment has nothing to do 
with your post but just my idea that JKR is going to make Petunia the 
late bloomer and that JKR is getting a kick out of that fact. 

Vivian