[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR's live chat -- excerpts

[Jane "Panhandle" Penhaligon]

No: HPFGUIDX 173829

Rt11guru posted:

> 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.
>

I think Dudley came pretty close ... he showed some real emotion, well real
for Dudley anyway, and some real caring for Harry in DH.  That in itself is
close to magic for Big D. 

I really loved that scene.

Panhandle

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