Squashed magic was: blood types, Dudley

[Michal]

No: HPFGUIDX 109476

At 05:31 PM 8/4/04, you wrote:
>--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Michal <yahoogroups at c...> wrote:
>
> >      Heritage |  100% Wizard |  Mixed      |  100% Muggle
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > Ability      |
> >      Magical  |  pureblood   |  half-blood |  muggle-born
> >      Squashed |              |  Dudley?    |
> >      No Magic |  squib       |  muggle?    |  muggle
>
>Cyndi asks;
>
>By the way, did you intentionally choose the word "squashed" because
>it was so similar to "squib", or was that a very happy accident? <G>

Michal replies:

The Dursleys talked about "squashing" magic out of Harry, I think. I could 
be remembering the wrong word. There are, after all, so very many words in 
the five volumes to date! <grin>

Thinking again of the squashed category, Voldemort was pretty squashed for 
ten or twelve years. Is it magic to take over a rat or snake body? Or 
should we consider him "handicapped" or "ill" (almost typed "sick" but he's 
that even when he's fully functional!)?