Old Dumbledore says clearly that Merope "stopped using magic. I do not think that she wanted to be a witch any longer. Of course, it is also possible that her unrequited love and the attendant despair sapped her of her powers; that can happen. In any case, as you are about to see, Merope refused to raise her wand even to save her own life." So he believes that's more probable that Merope willingly refused to do magic anymore and if it was so, that was a forme of suicide. We are inclined to think that she was 'sapped' by love because we are told that that's what happened to Tonks too and because Dumbledore says here that it is a possibility. But he don't believe it's very likely.
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Date: 2006-06-11 09:22 pm (UTC)Old Dumbledore says clearly that Merope "stopped using magic. I do not think that she wanted to be a witch any longer. Of course, it is also possible that her unrequited love and the attendant despair sapped her of her powers; that can happen. In any case, as you are about to see, Merope refused to raise her wand even to save her own life."
So he believes that's more probable that Merope willingly refused to do magic anymore and if it was so, that was a forme of suicide.
We are inclined to think that she was 'sapped' by love because we are told that that's what happened to Tonks too and because Dumbledore says here that it is a possibility. But he don't believe it's very likely.