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I don't think it was Merope. She was always a witch, she was able to make the pot move with her wand in the Pensieve memory. Her family just intimidated her to the point where her magic wouldn't work properly.
Also, I'm estimating that she was between 20-25 when she bewitched Tom Riddle Sr. into loving her. This is not, in my opinion, "quite late in life" as JK specified. So far the people we know who are not able to do magic are: Vernon: a prime candidate, as I am betting on an attack on Privet Dr. the minute Harry comes of age. Petunia: JK said she was not a Squib, so this is likely ruled out. Unless Lily was not in fact Muggleborn. Perhaps Petunia was adopted. She doesn't look much like Lily, so this is a possibility. Maybe she was invited to attend Hogwarts but didn't want to. Dudley: I think he is too young for him to be doing magic "quite late in life" Filch: What "desperate circumstance" could he be in? I just don't see this happening. Figgy: If she had any magical powers, wouldn't she have been able to see the dementors? Same goes for Dudley. Ron's Uncle who is an Accountant: I really like this idea. We know JK was going to introduce this character in GoF, when he and his Muggle wife have a daughter (Mafalda) who is a witch, and quite a gifted one. Perhaps he will be invited to Bill and Fleur's wedding, and we will meet him and he will show some magical ability if there is an attack at this time?
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I'd like to add an old friend to the list.
Hagrid, now we know that Hagrid uses magic on certain occasions but he is forbidden from doing so. So certainly he has never reached his true potential, maybe he does in book 7 |
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I think that it will be someone who has been mentioned in the series, but has not come to the forefront with msgic. My general question is why are we focusing on squibs? uIt could just as well have meant someone who is a full fledged witch/wizard that was just being lazy. That being a possibility, the whole theory just got bigger. For all we know, it could very weel be one of the students at Hogwarts!
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The canon for Merope's age at the time her father and brother were arrested and for her being a witch:
I think we can also rule out Mrs Figg and Mr Filch - although they are in the right age range, JKR's website pretty much says neither will do magic: None of this rules out Vernon but I can't think of a situation that would arise requiring him to do magic: not in Harry's presence anyway. I think our supposed Muggle/Squib will need to be connected to the Horcrux hunt plot in some way and I can't see Harry taking Vernon with him. |
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We were also given a pretty good explaination for why children often perform uncontrolled bits of wandless magic by Rowling on her website. The magical ability gets bottled up and builds, then it is unlessed in a fit of high emotion. I think we've seen Vernon about as mad and in rage as he can't several times through out the books, and he has yet to experience this release of magic that comes from not using one's magical ability. I think that might be enough to rule him out. |
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A Late-Blooming Wizard ? Well, I guess it will be Snape´s papa. Yeah!
A Late-Blooming Witch ? This has to be Mrs Number 7 opposite!!!
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ooooh, Hagrid. . . interesting thought, Cagan. This would fit the description of a late-blooming wizard. perhaps the trio will teach him (harry did remind him of 'aguamenti'- foreshadowing?).
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We never see Neville do anything extroadinary in school. Maybe this will be his time to shine?!
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I suspect it is Dudley. JKR never mentioned what Dudley saw during his experience with the Dementors. If he was not magical, he would have not seen anything. Also Dumbledore talks of the "abuse" inflicted on his by the Dursleys. Perhaps the abuse was not allowing him to explore his magical potential.
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It was just far too much to read through, apologies if it's been said before...
Here's my two cents: I was thinking, seens as though the Petunia candidate was squashed by JKR herself, there is a possibility that said suspect could in fact be DUDLEY. Here's why I think this... How to word it? Of all the muggles and suibs we've met along the way, the only ones that seem to stand a chance of being the lucky one seem to be the Dursleys. Petunia has been declined, and Vernon doesn't even have the potential to make himself a sandwich let alone cast a spell. But DUDLEY has it in his blood, his Aunt was a witch. I thought that this may have something to do with his worst nightmare and what he may have seen when he met the dementors. Maybe his worst memory was that of him inexplicably causing something to happen because of extreme emotion (like when before Harry knew how to control his magic, and what it was), because of the horror it would cause his mum and dad. They have been extremely against magic ever since Harry came into their lives, and although it was never worded as such, surely Dudley's not THAT stupid that he couldn't put it together once Harry found out he was a wizard. And then naturally after that, when Harry was at Hogwarts, the amount of resentment he was shown, and the forbidding of anything magical at Privet Drive. Dudley could know about it, too, but have no choice revealing it if something extreme happens and he tries to defend himself or his family (more likely himself), and so his secret would be revealed. I'm not saying that he's been testing it out in his bedroom for years, but that maybe it happened once and he's been keeping that a secret. And that everybody could find out because it'll accidently happen again. That's all |
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I am thinking the late bloomer is Arabella Figg. JK never said she didn't see the dementors. She said squibs can't see dementors. If Mrs. Figg couldn't see them I think JK would have said that specifically.
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This might be off base but have we ever seen Trelawney do any actual magic, as opposed to flinching at tea leaves and crystal balls? |
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I think it'll be Dudley. I know JKR has said that its not Petunia (on her website)
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I'm still kind of hoping that Filch's correspondence school magic course pays off and he's able to pull off one spectacular spell, like having one of his famous horsewhips chase a DE out of Hogwarts. But that's probably just wishful thinking.
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