Who came to magic late in life?

[Annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 172735

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "carodave92" <carodave92 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Carodave:
> 
> I believe this means Merope.  She began to do magic late in *her* 
> life (she died only a year or two later) and the desperate 
> circumstances refer to her desperate love for someone who didn't 
> return her feelings.
> 
> Carodave

Nuts.  The first bit of magic we see her do is shooting a cooking pot 
across the room with her wand.  And being embarrased by her father in 
front of Bob Ogden hardly counts as "desperate circumstances."

Annemehr