Petunia and love for Lily? NOT

[jjjjjuliep]

No: HPFGUIDX 137401

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" <vmonte at y...> wrote:
> 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).

Just to clarify, because it's important:  I didn't take your comment 
as an attack.  Nor was I angry; I was trying to write my response as 
clearly and concretely as possible since there seemed to be a lot of 
confusion on this important topic. 

There's no reason for any of us to be angry when we are discussing 
ideas; there's nothing personal here and it's all in good fun.  ;-)

jujube