Magical Late Bloomer

[saberbunny]

No: HPFGUIDX 151225

> > > Now Phil:
> > > I think the most obvious is Merope Gaunt.
> > 
> Hickengruendler:
> 
> I do agree that Merope Gaunt is a likely candidate, and if there's 
> nothing more about it in book 7, than I'll be the first one to 
admit 
> that JKR really meant Merope.  
> I for example wonder, if the time during which Merope does magic 
> really counts as "desperate circumstances". 

Catherine again:
Here's the quote

"In my books, magic almost always shows itself in a person before age 
11; however, there is a character who does manage in desperate 
circumstances to do magic quite late in life, but that is very rare 
in the world I am writing about." JKR in an interview dated March 19, 
1999, the link is below....
http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/1999/0399-
barnesandnoble.html
So it would be likely that the person has already shown up, but I 
agree with Hickengruendler that it doesn't really count as "desperate 
circumstances". She was in love/lust and perhaps a bit dersperate for 
Tom to love her, but she was in much better shape with her family in 
Azkaban. Had she used magic to save herself while pregnant, then her 
circumstances were desperate and I would agree. Also JKR says "quite 
late", Merope would have been what 18, 19 when this happened? That's 
just "a little late" in my books. Quite late would be more middle-
aged or at least over 30. 
 
Who knows, but one thing I do know is that it isn't Snape! Oops, I 
mean Professor Snape!

Catherine