Squibs, Wizards, Witches and Warlocks

[Linda]

No: HPFGUIDX 58616

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jhlupin" <jhlupin at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "indyattic" 
> <indyattic at e...> wrote:
> > I would like to revisit the theory that the wizarding world 
rejects 
> > the sqibs. I'm not convinced of it, and am wondering if anybody 
> else 
> > thinks that perhaps Madam Rosmerta might be a squib?

 jhlupin replied:

> Hogsmeade is the only fully wizarding community in Great 
> Britain, as HG points out to the gang in PoA.  It is completely 
> muggle-free.  I think this implies it would be squib free as 
well.  It 
> would be hard to make the claim of a completely wizarding 
> community if one of it's more prominent citizens and business 
> persons was not a wizard.

 Linda:

   I really don't have any idea about Madam Rosmerta one way or the 
other but I don't think this explanation disprooves that she is a 
squib. I don't see why Hogsmead couldn't be called an all wizarding 
settlement even if squibs were living there. Actually, it was 
founded as an all wizard settlement originally but we have no canon 
prooving that this is still the case. We only have Hermione telling 
us that she *has heard* that this is true. Her information could be 
wrong, old, or based on the intention behind the finding of the town 
and not its currant population. IMO, the idea behind Hogsmead, both 
as a plot device and a place that is real to the WW, is to establish 
a place, other than Hogwarts or private homes, where magic people,  
beings, and beasts don't have to hide what they are. A squib would 
already have knowledge of the WW and therefore would not compromise 
that intent.
       Just my two knuts.
  -Linda