Squibs

[kempermentor]

No: HPFGUIDX 126910


Dreamy wrote: <snip>
>JKR has put an article on her website stating that: A Squib is 
almost the opposite of a Muggle-born wizard: he or she is a non-
magical person born to at least one magical parent. Squibs are rare; 
magic is a dominant and resilient gene.

http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=19

 
<snip>

>Any child of a Squib would depend on who their grandparents were to 
determine whether they would be a half blood or not. Pure Blood is 
determined by having 4 magical grandparents. If a Squib was from a 
pureblood family and so was the witch/wizard marrying the Squib, I 
would think they would be a pureblood.

>If a child of a squib had Muggle grandparents or at least one Muggle
grandparent then the child would be a half-blood.

>These are of course my theories based on JKR's own provided 
information. They are open to criticism.


Kemper now:
I think that you are correct in your assumption that if a Squib of 
pureblood heritage married a Pureblood their offspring would be 
pureblood (scientifically with a lowercase `p'); however, I don't 
think they would be Pureblood (socially with uppercase `p'), and it 
is this distinction that matters within Magical culture.  

I don't know how often I've posted this quote, but again from CoS 
hardback


 "He did it, he did it!"  Filch spat, his pouchy face purpling.  "You 
saw what he wrote on the wall!  He found — in my office — he knows 
I'm a — I'm a —" Filch's face worked horribly.  "He knows I'm a 
Squib!" he finished.  (CS 142)

This is what Tom Riddle through Ginny "
wrote on the wall":

THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN
OPENED.  ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE.
(CS 138)

So, the Squib considers himself an "enemy of the heir."  Since Filch 
doesn't say "He knows my mom was a Muggle!" nor does he say "He knows 
my dad's a Muggle-born wizard!", I'm guessing that Filch comes from a 
Pureblood background which may explain some of his resentments. 


Back to Dreamy, who also surmises that Filch comes from Pureblood 
heritage:

>This Kwikspell course that he was doing was basically Filch refusing
to accept the fact that he had no magic and was going to try any
means necessary to get magic even if it was risky. I surmise that 
Filch
was probably a pureblood Squib, though it has yet to be proven. I am
theorizing from the fact that he seems to be hoping more than anything
that the course will work.

Kemper now:
I think we can agree that Filch is from pureblood stock, but since he 
considers himself an enemy of the heir, I'm also surmising, as I've 
posted on other threads, that Filch thinks of himself as a Mudblood, 
not because he was born of Muggle parents, but because he was born a 
Muggle
 essentially.  Where would he get the identity that Squibs are 
Mudbloods... from Purebloodists for sure, but to a lesser degree from 
the Magical world who are Seperatists, it is the Magical World that 
keeps it self away from the Non-magical World, and a Squib is Non-
magical.


>Though, this also brings up an interesting question... would Filch 
sell out Dumbledore if Voldemort promised him magic? Don't think it 
would happen, but Filch seems to be very unhappy with the way certain 
things are run. Do you think it is possible if he was given the 
opportunity.


Kemper now:
I think Filch would sell out Dumbledore if the false-possibility of 
magic was offered to him.  He hates himself too much to do anything 
different.  It seems as though he hides his Squibiness rather well
 
as shown in OoP when Umbridge advises him to avoid using a certain 
spell against the magical fireworks that the twins set.  Then again, 
Umbridge may not want to see the truth in some things that go against 
her worldview. 

Kemper,
a Squib lover who thinks that the Purebloodists would start a website 
called godhatessquibs.com where there would be a countup (opposite of 
countdown) of the number of days Mr. Figg has been in hell.  The 
Squib lover also thinks that Mr. Figg was a Squib who was murdered by 
some Purebloodists, probably DE's, one of who is named Macnair.  
Anyone up for a fanfic?