What are muggles, anyway?

[Milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 20215

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Aberforth's Goat" <Aberforths_Goat at Y...> 
wrote:
> Pondered Milz,
> 
> > Interesting....so essentially Muggles could just be Squibs who 
have
> > lost their magical cultural heritage. That would explain the 
presence
> > of Muggle-borns.
> 
> Hmm. I had never thought of it like that. Perhaps all humans were 
once
> wizards, but a comet burst or Syltho's grampa showed up, and the 
majority of
> them degenerated into squibs.
> 

Right and the magical cultural heritage, such as the various Goblin 
Wars, Quidditch, etc. were never "handed down" to the following 
Squibbed generations. Those that were probably survived as 'fairy 
tales' or folk tales such as "The Frog Prince", an animagi who 
preferred to live in frog form until he fell in love with that Muggle 
girl or that brave little witch, "Little Red-Riding Hood" who along 
with her gran defeated a werewolf.

> In that case, muggles are like docked cats or cats with a 
debilitating birth
> defect--essentailly normal, but missing an appendage. But what if 
they're
> like manx cats--different, yes, yet possessed of positive 
characteristics
> that magical humans lack.

Or maybe Muggles and Squibs lack a hormone that is needed to 
"activate" the magic cells. No one's ever really figured out what the 
pineal gland does anyway.

> I mean, does Dumbledore dream of the day 
when all
> humans will be magical?

Could be. Maybe Dumbledore is privy to Magical/Muggle genetic studies 
that imply Muggles are really Squibs.

Milz