[HPforGrownups] Petunia as Squib

[Maria Kirilenko]

No: HPFGUIDX 50272


Christopher Nuttall wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
>
Jazmyn:
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.

Now me:

I think that, however alike their magical capabilities, squibs and Muggles are not the same thing. 

The definition of a Muggle, I believe, is someone who has no magical blood in him and cannot do magic. A Squib cannot do magic either, but he has magical blood.

That way, Muggle-repellling charms and Disillusionment charms (or whatever they're using on Hogwarts) would not affect Squibs if they are indeed cast to repel Muggles. 

Again, Lily was called a Muggle-born witch, which made her parents Muggles. That way, Petunia can't be a squib - she is a Muggle like her parents.

But I think that since Lily is a witch, there must be something in her family that made her so, which in its turn can give Petunia and/or Dudley and/or Dudley's future offspring a better chance of being magical too, than somebody from a completely wizarding family.

Maria,

who thinks Dudley might develop magical powers in OoP.



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