JKR's live chat -- excerpts

[rt11guru]

No: HPFGUIDX 173818

A major question resolved here:


Snapedinhalf: You promised that someone will do magic late in life in
book 7. I've now read it three times but cant work out who it might
have been! Please help!!

J.K. Rowling: I'm sorry about this, but I changed my mind!
J.K. Rowling: My very earliest plan for the story involved somebody
managing to get to Hogwarts when they had never done magic before,
but I had changed my mind by the time I'd written the third book.

As I had suspected, the character was "hyped in the trailer" but ended
up "on the cutting room floor".