The Dursleys:

[jmwcfo]

No: HPFGUIDX 167540

> Jordan:
> > No, JKR announced that Pet is not a squib.  We do _not_ know that
she's not a witch.

> Magpie:
> She said "She is not a squib. She is a Muggle." She said she is a
Muggle,
> not a witch.

> Jordan:
> > 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.


> Magpie:
> At which point Pet could change her mind, since she would still be
a witch.
> Rejecting Hogwarts does not remove your magical powers or ability
to do
> spells. You're just not well-trained. But Petunia's parents would
have been
> approached regardless when Petunia was 11 if she were a witch. But
JKR's
> quote does call her a Muggle, so it wasn't an issue.



JW retrieves a few JKR quotes:

"Everyone who shows magical ability before their eleventh birthday
will automatically gain a place at Hogwarts; there is no question of
not being `magical enough'; you are either magical or you are not.
There is no obligation to take up the place, however; a family might
not want their child to attend Hogwarts."

We are not told what happens to a no-show.  Would a headmaster allow
a muggle-born 11-year-old be a no-show without consulting the muggle
parents? What would Hogwarts do with a no-show who later wanted to
start training?  Is such a person left with Quickspells mail
correspondence courses as the only alternative?

"Aunt Petunia has never performed magic, nor will she ever be able to
do so."

It appears that most magical kiddies generate untrained,
uncontrolled, spontaneous magic (i.e., the vanishing glass that freed
the snake in SS/PS). A literal interpretation (always dangerous!) of
the quote means that this NEVER happened to Pet.  However, I find
nothing on JKR's site that calls Pet a muggle.  Have I overlooked the
quote, or is it in an interview, and not shown on the JKR site?