JKR's live chat -- excerpts

[muscatel1988]

No: HPFGUIDX 173823

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rt11guru" <ken.fruit at ...> wrote:
>
> 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.

Mus responds:
That was what I'd assumed must have happened.  Mind you, when she 
volunteered that information back in 1999, she'd already finished PoA 
and had embarked on GoF (http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/1999/0399-
barnesandnoble.html).

Oh dear.