Neville's parents/What makes a muggle?
esmith222002
c.john at imperial.ac.uk
Fri Sep 5 08:52:01 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 79905
I just wanted to discuss something my wife noticed from the PS. This
concerns Neville and his 'Wizard discovery' speech. Neville refers to
the fact that his family thought he was all muggle up until this
point.
POINT 1 - Neville's parents are supposedly Alice and Frank
Longbottom. Therefore, if Neville was non-magical, surely he would be
described as a squib (ie non magic person with two magical parents)
POINT 2 - In OOTP, Alice is described as looking incredibly like
Neville. (Which brings me round to my second point. What is a muggle?
If you have one magic parent and one non magic parent and you are non-
magic, are you a muggle?)
Therefore, IS FRANK LONGBOTTOM NEVILLE'S DAD?? (otherwise why would
his family think he was a muggle?)
This could be a FLINT, but it is a lengthy piece of dialogue, and it
seems that JKR could simply have said Neville's family thought he was
non-magical rather than muggle!!
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