Petunia not a squib but...

[Chris]

No: HPFGUIDX 110504

Maria wrote:

"Part 2 - Petunia is a Mib. This might explain why JK Rowling said 
that Petunia is not a Squib but... If Squibs are rare, Mibs are even 
rarer. They are basically Muggles. She would have lived completely 
unaware of magic if it wasn't because her sister was fully magical. 
It gives her a big reason to be bitter at Lily. Also explains why she 
knows about Dementors... she could have seen them, not only heard 
about them."


I did not know that JKR had said anything about this subject but it 
does cloud the issue even more. 

It also brings back to light a question I had about Muggleborns, 
which I have raised once already.

Why was Lily a witch and not Petunia?

I think most people believe Lily to be the younger sister and so why 
is Petunia not a witch?

I thought it might have something to do with belief but Petunia would 
have known that magic was possible once Lily was accepted to HSWW yet 
Harry does not and still manages to perform wandless magic, i think 
Petunia's hatred of magic came from the fact that she was not able to 
attend HSWW (not every wizard/witch must otherwise the wizarding 
population must be really small but that is another controversial 
topic)

This would make he a witch of the same social/ability standing of 
Stan Shunpike or Tom perhaps?

These two whilst obviously part of the magical world have obvious 
skills that do not tally with most HSWW pupils. Tom's memory or 
Stan's sense of direction(this is a guess).

Petunia is obviously very good at cleaning and eavesdropping and 
becasue the books only focus on what Harry sees and hears, she could 
probably keep it a secret. It is a shame that she was not around to 
see the Dementors otherwise we might no one way or the other.

ChrisT