Dudley: Muggle or Wizard?

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azriona:
> 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.  
<snip> 
> 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.  
<snip>
> IMO, Dudley's a Muggle.  Sorry.


I agree, in part because in one of her interviews, JKR says 
almost explicitly that with Dudley, what you see is what you get. 
She then asked why anyone would want there to be more with Dudley in 
the first place. But she did make it clear that Dudley was Dudley, 
no more, and certainly no less. 

I believe this may have been one of her more current interviews, but I can't specifically recall it now. In any case, with the pattern of Harry spending less and less time at the Dursley's, coupled with the fact that he'll soon be over age, it seems a stretch that the Dursleys would play a more active role in the last book - seems to me Rowling's got enough plot points to be going along, unless she wants to write another OotP-length volume, which, of course, I wouldn't mind. Granted, Harry it seems will spend more time at places like GH and perhaps Riddle's old estate - in other words, away from Hogwarts, but I don't seem him really bringing the Dursleys into the picture.   


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