[HPforGrownups] Re: The Dursleys:

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 167570

> Jordan:
> > 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.
>
> 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 she 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 wrote:

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).

However, Shelley, is it possible to de-power a wizard into muggleness?
Perhaps Dudley, not Petunia, is the recipient of such a "favor."  Such
a circumstance would be a hidden message behind DD's reference (in HBP)
to the Dursley's abuse of Dudley...

Shelley:
I still think that it is possible that Petunia is a witch that refused her
witchhood- that there could be some formal process for doing what it is that
JW proposes: to de-power a wizard into Muggleness. Since Petunia might have
chosen this route for herself, there is no abuse in that, but to also choose
it for her son, that indeed might classify as "abuse of Dudley". Thus, JKR
would be correct in saying that Petunia is currently a Muggle, and that she
will never do magic. This would be of her own willfull choice to do so.
Dudley, on the other hand, might be able to choose for himself once he
reaches "of age" in wizard years for that choice to be final, meaning that
he would be the one to "do magic late in life" when he chooses the Wizard
life against his parents wishes.