Snape's biggest fear/Person coming to magic late in life

[Sharon]

No: HPFGUIDX 134788

Lasp1x said:
> Secondly, I wanted to bring up the question of the person who came 
> into magic late in life. I have mentioned my opinion of this at 
> Fiction Alley but am curious enough about it to also bring it up 
> here. HP fans are known for over analyzing, I do it myself all the 
> time. But could the person who comes into magic late in life be as 
> simple as being Merope? We are told by Dumbledore that she couldn't 
> do magic until she left the Gaunt house and her father also calls her 
> a squib.


I'd forgotten all about that statement of hers.  Yeah, I totally agree 
that the person is Merope.  

I wonder *why* she couldn't do magic until she left the house.  Was it 
because she wasn't very good at it to begin with, or perhaps her family 
was so overbearing that she was afraid to try?  And if she never did 
magic, does that mean she didn't attend Hogwarts?  (Although I don't 
imagine for a second the rest of the family did, either.)

--azriona