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Re: Whether Dudley will exhibit magical tendencies in Deathly Hallows
The quote referred to was made by Jo in March of 1999, before the publication of Prisoner of Azkaban. Here it is in it's entirety:

"In my books, magic almost always shows itself in a person before age 11; however, there is a character who does manage in desperate circumstances to do magic quite late in life, but that is very rare in the world I am writing about." --[]

There is no indication that this quote refers to Dudley, or that the character will appear in Deathly Hallows. I believe that it referred to Merope Gaunt, who was thought a Squib but was able to perform magic in later life to protect herself from her father.


 * I'm sorry, I have to disagree. Granted, both of the Gaunts called Merope a Squib, but she was quite clearly doing magic, albeit weakly, when we first saw her in the hut. The fact that they abused her and denigrated her magical abilities does not imply that she was, in fact, a squib; and if she was, they would have been a lot more surprised when she suddenly started magically defending herself from her father.


 * Because this is rather an out-of-the-way place for this comment, I'll copy it to the discussion page of Chapter 1 of OotP, which is after all what we are discussing. Chazz (talk) 22:34, 6 July 2007 (UTC)