Squibs and Hagrid was Re: Petunia not the latebloomer, but magic nonetheless

[Antonia Maria Duchesne Siemaszko]

No: HPFGUIDX 101480

Susan <teilani2002 at y...> wrote:
> > As for Dudders, the same applies, really.  If Dudders had any
> > magic in that plump body of his, where's _his_ invitation?
> >
> > So, I'm with you on the possibility of Mrs. Figg, and I could also
> > see Hagrid practicing/using magic to fight in the war, though I'm
> > not sure he actually qualifies, as he's not exactly a late bloomer,
> > just uneducated.

Persephone:
> Well, then I am confused, it you were a squib, weren't that noted at
> birth that you were not a magical child?? So, your knowledge of the
> wizarding world would be from your parents vision or siblings and
> friends.


Okay is a squib NON MAGICAL or a person who can't use magic. I guess the 
question is are we sure people like Figg and Filch are NON MAGICAL? I 
always thought they were magical people who couldn't DO magic, either 
because of a disability or because there wasn't ENOUGH magic in them to 
use, or they couldn't figure out how to use it. I never thought that they 
weren't "genetically" magical, it never occurred to me that they weren't in 
the book. I don't know whether they got letters and found out AT Hogwarts 
they couldn't do magic, or found out before and their letters were stopped. 
If squibs were totally NON MAGICAL what use would a Kwikspell Course BE? 
Why would Filch spend what is probably the wizard world version of 
outrageous infomercial prices on something if he KNEW he could NEVER 
no  matter what he did ever use magic at all? I always thought squibs were 
disabled wizards. Magic folk who couldn't USE magic. As opposed to Muggles 
who are NON MAGICAL people.

Regarding Hagrid, his wand was broken and he was expelled because he was de 
facto if not dejure "convicted of opening the chamber of secrets, and 
killing Myrtle (fill in last name)"  Since everyone has known he was 
innocent since book one, at least the people in power,  why hasn't someone 
taken Hagrid to Ollivanders for a NEW WAND, in five books I've seen NO 
evidence to say okay we know it was Tom Riddle/Voldemort etc. We know its 
not Hagrid so clear his name and restore his rights. If someone is wrongly 
convicted in the muggle world they restore his rights. I have no clue why 
nobody in the WW is trying to get Hagrid cleared, and his official right to 
use magic restored.

Tana