Petunia's Eyes/Snape, Snape, Snape

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 169968

Ken wrote:
> 
><snip> I don't think it would be cheating at all for JKR to call
Petunia a Muggle if she had in fact been born with magical power and
then blocked it as soon as she became aware of it. She did not
actually have to "perform" magic to become aware of it. For example if
she were in London and realized that only she and Lily could see the
Leaky Cauldron she would know she had magical power. <snip>

Carol responds:

I previously cited a quote from the Rumours section of JKR's site
that, for me, definitively answers the question you and Magpie are
arguing. Possibly it got lost overlooked amid the other points I made
in my post 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/169927

so I'll cite it again:

[Rumour:] Aunt Petunia will start exhibiting magical tendencies

[JKR's answer:] No, she won't. Aunt Petunia has never performed magic,
nor will she ever be able to do so.


In my previous post, I forgot to include the link to the Rumours page,
which can be found at 

http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/rumours_view.cfm?id=37

So JKR has done more than simply call Petunia a Muggle, both in canon
and in interviews. She has said flat out that Petunia has never
performed magic and never will. I really don't see how she could state
any more plainly that Petunia is not and never will be a witch.

Carol, who thinks that not even Petunia would turn down a Hogwarts
letter or squash the magic out of herself if she had that inborn
talent (which made her parents so proud of "freaky" Lily)