[HPforGrownups] Petunia as Squib

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 50269



Christopher Nuttall wrote:
> 
> What i think happened was that Lily was oldest and she shared all her
> tales of the WW with Petunia, who looked forward desperatly to the
> time that she could join it and then, on the day she expected the
> letter, got nothing.  There would have been a period of denial,
> followed by hatred of what she wanted so much,and then outright hatred
> of lily, the 'favored one'.
> 
> I don't think that Petunia  is a squib because she takes no part in
> the WW at all, while the only (?) squib we've seen so far, flitch,
> seems to be able to take part in the WW (see hogwarts, use at least
> some magic, etc) and work in it, even if he's not quite an equal.
> Squibs must have some magic to see hogwarts and there would be NO
> point in the Quickspell course if there was NOTHING to develop.
> 
> Chris
> 
>

The point of a Squib is that they have no magic.  Filch has no trouble
seeing Hoggwarts because he KNOWS its there, thus any spells to make it
look like something else wouldn't work on him.  Far as I understand
though, the castle only looks like ruins from the air to muggles, not
when one is INSIDE it.  It would be too dangerous though for a muggle to
approach it on foot cause of the dangers of the forest and such, so they
would have to be escorted there by a wizard at very least.

Says a lot about Filch, having no magic, being able to do as well as he
does on shear nasty attitude. Keeping both rowdy wizard kids (and
magical beasties like Boggarts or whatever else he might find when doing
his job) in line or at least surviving them? None of the kids even
suspect he is a Squib until the evidence is found. 

Jazmyn