[HPforGrownups] Re: The Dursleys:

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 167533

> JW:
>
> JKR has announced two things of relevance here:
>
> First, that there IS an important revelation in DH about Petunia.  I do
> not recall the exact words, but IIRC, she said that it WILL explain
> DD's multiple correspondences with Petunia, and what Pet was able to
> extract from DD in return for taking HP.
>
> Second, JKR has announced that Pet is NOT a witch, not the squib who
> JKR says will first perform magic relatively late in life, but instead
> is a normal, unexciting MUGGLE who will NEVER perform magic, thank you
> very much (to paraphrase the first paragraph in SS/PS).

No, she announced that she is not a squib, but that "that is a very
good guess". Which seems obvious enough anyway since a "squib" as such
is a non-magical person born into a magical family, and we know that
her family was not magical. We do _not_ know that she's not a witch.
We might logically assume that, because otherwise why would she be
bitter. But, consider this; if she is the older of the two sisters,
she might have rejected it out of, say, fear that her parents would
not have approved, which would have added an element of regret for
that decision to her bitterness on finding how proud they were of
Lily.

--Random832