[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's biggest fear/Person coming to magic late in life

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 135260

Azriona wrote:
<snip> 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.)


Lynda says:

I thought from the context of the book, that she was doing magic in the memory, she was simply fumbling a bit, being so eschewed and downtrodden by her father and made to feel unsure of herself, (rather like a certain dorm mate of Harry's who is always being reminded that his parents were better than him) and then later on, after the imprisonment of her father and brother, found that she could not do magic in that house any longer.  That is far different from coming into magic late in life.





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