Squibs?

fauntine_80 fauntine_80 at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 9 03:23:47 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 92514

Sylvia wrote:
> I've always blithely assumed that the people like the witch who
> brings round the trolley on the express or the barman in the Leakey
> Cauldron are all squibs, since they are plainly part of the WW but
> are doing rather mundane jobs.

Honey:
> The witch with the food cart is specifically referred to as a 
> "witch", not a woman, squib, or muggle.

I thought it was mentioned in the books that Squibs were very rare.  
We only know of two actual characters being Squibs and the MoM 
doesn't even seem to know a lot about them in OotP when the Squib (I 
forgot her name) testifies for Harry about the Dementors.  They ask 
if a Squib can even see a Dementor.

So, as for the witch pushing the cart, who knows?  I guess her job 
is kind of like that of a flight attendants, possibly?  And, we also 
don't know what other duties she performs.  Obviously, she doesn't 
make her bread and butter only 2-4 times a year, and I don't think 
the Hogwarts express runs any other time other than the beginning 
and end of the terms and possibly Christmas Holidays.  So, she must 
do something else.

"fauntine_80" 





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