blood types, Dudley

[Michal]

No: HPFGUIDX 108857

At 05:10 PM 7/28/04, Snow wrote in The Founders Four message:
>There are
>four possible bloodlines that I can think of and it would be very
>unique of JKR to have the four founders of each house as a
>representative of each of the different blood lineage; pureblood,
>half blood, magical person born to a squib, magical person born to a
>muggle.

Taking a tangent from your discussion of the school founders, I noticed 
that you seem to be mixing apples and oranges here, and there are more than 
four combinations if you add squibs and halfbloods to the discussion.

Pretend I've got a matrix here; if you can't see it, put it in a 
monospace/typewriter font.


     Heritage |  100% Wizard |  Mixed      |  100% Muggle
------------------------------------------------------------
Ability      |
     Magical  |  pureblood   |  half-blood |  muggle-born
     Squashed |              |  Dudley?    |
     No Magic |  squib       |  muggle?    |  muggle

The matrix puts heritage against  usage. I don't think anyone should argue 
with the three types of heritage listed, but Squashed Ability is another 
story. I put it here because I suspect Lily's family had wizards in it 
other than her and I also suspect that Dudley is a wizard who's been 
"squashed" (he felt the dementors after all). And while we haven't run 
across any, there must be wizards who have denied their heritage/skill and 
refused to use it or who were never allowed to use it. As a formerly 
"excommunicated" wizard, Hagrid was "not allowed" to use magic for years 
(even though he did from time to time with his hidden, repaired wand). 
Surely there's a term for that sort of wizard?

Regarding which types would be at wizard school, just the ones with magical 
ability would be my best guess. I supposed it would be possible for magical 
parents to force a magical kid in denial/revolt to attend wizard school, 
but is that really likely? Are there any reluctant Hogwarts students that I 
missed?

Is it possible for the MoM or a powerful wizard to squash someone's use of 
magic? Or when they snap your wand, do they ask you nicely not to buy 
another one? Put you on a list so the wand-makers won't sell to you? Wand 
control laws? LOL

Michal