[HPFGU-OTChatter] PS quiz

[Heidi Tandy]

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 4:34pm, Kathryn Cawte wrote:
> Nope she means 'all-muggle' because in PS Neville says that his family
though that he was 'all-muggle' until .... well I can't continue that
without giving away the answer to her question, but she's deriving the
question from an exact quote.
There was a long discussion over on the main list about why Neville 
used
that particular phrasing, I don't remember when other than it was a few
months back so I can't recommend the exact posts.


I unfortunately missed that discussion, but there's only one answer that 
has a canon basis - it's because she didn't want to introduce the term 
"squib" until CoS, the same way that in PoA, the term "dementor" doesn't 
show up until after Lupin introduces it - before that, they're called 
"the Azkaban guards", which is a term that never appears again once the 
word "dementor" is used.


Heidi