Squibs And Muggles

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 57567

Angie:

> Yikes - I missed that. Which book is that in? We only know of two 
> Squibs, but we do know that there are enough of them to warrant the 
> development of the correspondence course. 

PS pg 75.

"I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never 
talk about him," Ron.

> 
> Darrin again:
> "The Weasley cousin gets a Muggle job and apparently doesn't 
> associate with his magic kin.  I mean, this is the Weasleys., some 
of 
> the nicest people in the Wizard World, and there is not a place for 
> this cousin? That indicates, a bit, that Squibs really aren't 
> welcome, and probably are strongly encouraged to embrace their 
forced 
> Mugglehood. But that leaves Filch. Perhaps Filch has a job in the 
> magic world through the open-mindedness of Dumbledore, employer of 
> werewolves and giants, payer of house elves, granter of second-
> chances to Death Eaters, and generally all-around great 
> guy."
> 
> 
> Me again:
> Maybe Cousin Weasely is in league with Bill and/or Gringotts, 
> laundering Muggle money.I never ever got the impression that the 
> magical world booted out the Squibs. 

Well, the quote indicates that the Weasleys never talk about the 
cousin. I didn't mean to say the magic world booted them out, but 
there just doesn't seem to be a place for Squibs in the magical world 
as a whole.

Really, how odd would it be to be the only non-magic cousin at a 
Weasley gathering?

 
> Darrin again:
> "If Dumbledore knew -- and he probably does -- about Filch's 
attempts 
> with the Kwikspell stuff, he'd likely say -- and may have said --
>  "Argus, you really shouldn't fall for foolishness such as that. I 
> have confidence that your skills, magic or no, will fit in nicely 
> here at Hogwarts."
> 
> Me:
> Or perhaps Dumbledore knows that the Kwikspell course isn't *all* 
> nonsense after all. After all, developing magic "late in life" 
isn't apparently unheard of.

Actuall, I don't know if there is a reference to late-developing 
magic in the canon. Neville didn't show the aptitude until later in 
his childhood, but I don't recall anyone Petunia or Filch's age 
suddenly becoming magic.

The Petunia is magic theory is just that, a theory. I am kind of 
indifferent to the Dursleys, so it wouldn't matter to me.

It would just seem to me to fit with Dumbledore's usual M.O., finding 
a place for someone everyone else has given up on.

Darrin