I heard that JK Rowling said that someone would perform magic quite late in life in book seven, I was just wondering if anyone had noticed who it was?
I have read the book twice and while if no-one can answer I will reread it looking for the answer myself I was just hoping someone else had picked up on who it was already, if they could tell me it would save me the job of rereading the book myself.
2007-08-14 09:35:15 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The second I got done reading the book I called my friend and asked her the same question and neither one of us could think of anybody. I'm going to keep an eye on this question though...I hope someone has the answer.
2007-08-14 09:40:17 · answer #1 · answered by NYinFL 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im rereading the second Harry Potter book right now and i think i know who it would have been in the 7th book if she had put it in. I think it was probably Filch because on page 127 in Harry potter and the chamber of secrets, Harry is in Filch's office because he got mud in the castle. Filch leaves because peeves breaks something and harry is left alone in Filch's office, he sees an envelope on Filch's desk and opens it. It turns out that it is a letter about a book or something about how to learn magic even if your old and have never done it before. Filch comes back in and gets really mad and nervous that Harry read his letter and tells him not to tell anyone. Harry is left to wander if it really was Filch's letter and if Filch really cant do magic. Filch would fit the description of what JK said. Someone will do magic in the seventh book that has never done it before very late in life. It probably would have been at the battle at Hogwarts. Thats what I think.
2007-08-15 11:40:31 · answer #2 · answered by Emily 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
originally mugglenet theorized that it was Dudley because he underwent a definite change that was "magical" but not in the literal sense. However in her live web chat on July 30th she stated the following:
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! 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.
the entire text from the webchat is at this website. You should read it, its very interesting and gives lots of answers to our unanswered questions.
http://www.bloomsbury.com/harrypotter/content.asp?sec=3&sec2=1
2007-08-14 10:33:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To respond to a couple of suggestions it was not Mrs Weasley, she used magic several times, specifically the times when Harry visited them. In most cases however she used it in her cooking however she also used it to try and prevent Fred and George from taking their joke items with them to the Quiddich Cup.
As previously stated, JK Rowlings was going to write this into her final book but ended up, according to an interview, deciding against it. I personally feel that she did delete a number of things from the last book to try and keep it a reasonable length. However, in answer to your question, no one in Book 7 used magic who had not used it before.
2007-08-14 10:01:06 · answer #4 · answered by Jeff H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Stop torturing yourself. It's not in the book, you didn't miss it. Jo Rowling said that she changed her mind about including that character (whoever he or she was) after the many theories and speculations surrounding it.
Reread the book again by all means. But because you like to not because of this.
2007-08-18 05:49:12 · answer #5 · answered by zachmir 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Books to read next:
Maximum Ride series by James Patterson
The Sprawl trilogy by William Gibson
Daughter of the Lioness series by Tamora Pierce
Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot.
The Hobbit and LOTR series by J.R.R. Tolkien
Xenogenesis Series by Nebula and Hugo award winning author Octavia E. Butler
His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman
Non-Series:
Fire Starter by Stephen King (more thriller than horror)
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
2007-08-14 10:15:46 · answer #6 · answered by Ralph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
-http://mugglenet.com/app/news/full_story/1156
*I* was dissapointed.
2007-08-14 10:10:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
jk rowling said in an interview that she changed her mind about that. She was going to make it that someone gets into Hogwarts that had never shown signs of magical powers but decided not to.
2007-08-14 10:47:58 · answer #8 · answered by Jesus=Savior<3 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
properly interior the epilogue (19 yrs after ending) Ron confunds the guy giving him a Muggle using attempt so he can pass. it rather is the only point out of somebody utilising magic later in existence.
2016-11-12 08:10:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
in her intervies after the book came out jo said she changed her mind, therefore no one performs magic later in life
2007-08-14 09:41:08 · answer #10 · answered by n 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋