Dudley: Muggle or Wizard?

[Sharon]

No: HPFGUIDX 134793

Smortone said:  (I think it was smartone - it was unsigned, so hard 
to tell)

> In the NBC interview the Monday after HBP was released, Katie 
Couric 
> asked JKR a question on behalf of a six year old.  He wanted to 
know 
> if Petunia had magical powers and that is why Harry was entrusted 
to 
> the Dursley's care.  JKR semed impressed that the question came 
from a 
> young child and said that he should " continue to explore along


JKR is awfully good at deflecting, though.  And she says that she 
only squashes theories that really have no purpose - which to me 
means she lets some theories, although wrong, continue.  I think this 
is one of them.  I don't believe that any of the Dursleys have magic 
within them.  The Dursleys are largely symbolic of the Muggle world 
and its fear of anything different.  To turn one of them into a 
wizard would destroy the symbollism inherent in them.

I do agree that there was likely more than one letter to Petunia, 
causing DD to say "Remember my last" and not "Remember my letter".  
However, I don't think one of the letters would have invited Dudley 
to Hogwarts - that would not have happened until Dudley was eleven, 
at which point we would have noticed an extra owl.  I think the extra 
communication between DD and Petunia occured *before* the Potters' 
deaths; thus, the last letter Petunia received from DD was the one in 
which he entrusted Harry to her.

(DD even says as much to Harry in OotP, telling him point blank that 
the "last" letter was that note.)

IMO, Dudley's a Muggle.  Sorry.

--azriona