It was to have been a Squib and no, can’t find ‘em. Must have been an early plot thread that got edited out.
How many are in the complete series? I haven’t read a one yet, but will someday, when I get sick and am laid up for a while. Love the movies. Rawlings will write more of something. Writers write because they have to, not because of the money (except Heinlein of course).
In answer to my own question about a Muggle doing magic-
On page 64, fourth paragraph, Ted Tonks tells Harry, “...Anything else broken? I’ve fixed your ribs, your tooth, and your arm, I’m Ted by the way-Ted Tonks, Dora’s Father.”
Since Harry’s tooth had been knocked out, I am assuming that Ted Tonks did magic.
supposedly it was Merope who did magic late in life.
I guess I’m the weird one. I wasn’t all that happy with this book, nor was I with the 6th.
I kinda lost my joy for this Universe in the 5th book when JKR killed Sirius. I had just lost one of my 4-legged kids, and one month to the day after losing him, my Godfather.
To me, this book was the story of Severus Snape, not Harry Potter.
I didn’t like the epilogue, and I hated that poor Remus, who never was really shown that much was killed off screen. I mean, couldn’t just one of the Marauders make it to old age, and die a natural death? Would that have been just too much to ask?
Maybe I’ve become jaded, but I doubt I’ll return to the Wizarding World for a re-read ever again.