Squibs verses Muggles

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 86135

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, KT Waters <Jadeau xxx> wrote:

<< Well a Squib is a non-magic person born to magic parents. So they
are non-magic. Non-magic people are Muggles. A squib is just a type of
muggle, so a Squib would only live an average of 76 years I think it
is, whereas a wizard - I don't know, 150 years? >>

Part of the question is WHY do wizards live so much longer than
Muggles? Is it just because they have magic inside them, or does it
also require the use of Magical Medicine? I suppose that a Muggle who
married a wizard would live longer than other Muggles because being
allowed to use the the skillful Healers at St. Mungo's, but not as
long as a wizard because of not having magic inside. So even if a
Squib is the same as a Muggle, Squibs who remain in the magical
community (like Filch) would live longer than average Muggles.
 
I don't think that a Squib is the same as a Muggle -- the two Squibs
we've met, Filch and Figg, have special communication with their cats.
Like, I am Catlady, but I am a Muggle: my cats understand "dinner" and
"bad kitty!" and "laugh", but not "keep watch over Harry", and they
can tell me they're hungry, they want to be petted, or something's
wrong, but not "Mundungus Apparated away". This has been pointed out
on list and suggested (sorry, I don't remember by whom) that
communication with cats in an innate Squib trait that Muggles don't have. 

In addition, Hogwarts is enchanted so that any Muggle who blunders
upon it sees just an old ruin with a "Danger, Keep Out" sign, but
Filch finds his way around Hogwarts. It has been suggested that Squibs
innately are not affected by Muggle-repelling spells because of not
being Muggles.