Enchanted Items

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No: HPFGUIDX 144403

„«	Bart:
> 3) Squibs. Considering how little most magical families
> supposedly know about Muggles, squibs would have a great
> deal of difficulty getting by in the Muggle world. One
> would think that someone could make decent money, especially
> if the Ministry kicks in, making magical prothetics/aids/etc.
> Why is this not happening?
>
> Any theories?
>> Bart

>bboyminn:
>It seems that Squib are extremely rare. The two we seen seem to have
>made their nitch in the wizard world. Filch is caretaker at 
>Hogwarts,and given his non-magical status, I'm sure he works 
>extremely hard.
>Mrs. Figg has carved a nitch in crossbreading cat and Kneasles, and
>logically her target market would be magical people. Limited as it 
>is,they both seem to have found their way in the wizard world.

There it is, for what it's worth.
>Steve/bboyminn

Orna:
 As for squibs being rare - I'm not sure about it -Neville's family 
was afraid he would be one- if they were so rare - I'm not sure they 
would think about it so much. OTOH since it is a disgrace - they 
might be worried, even if the probability is low. But I think of 
squibs as the extreme of a scale of extremely powerful magic ability 
on one point, and extreme non-magical ability on the other. So it 
would make sense to market items which help less magical wizards to 
get along in the world. 

There was a mentioning in CoS that Filch got a letter from Kwikspell 
promising a correspondence course in Beginners¡¦ Magic. So it seems 
someone is making decent money, or at least trying to.

And while we are at it, perhaps it has been discussed ¡V my apology ¡V 
does anyone have a theory on why Filch, who is a squib, and a 
somewhat sadistic one is placed in this caretaker¡¦s job. Perhaps a 
wizard caretaker would make it really difficult for the pupils to 
wander around and seek adventures, and DD likes his students to 
develop their adventurous skills? And why he was treating Snape¡¦s 
wounded leg in PS? (What¡¦s wrong with Madam Pomfrey, or Snape¡¦s own 
healing powers, revealed in HBP?)

And another thing ¡V while checking in CoS, I saw that Filch put 
Peeves in the vanishing cabinet ¡V thinking that he got rid of him 
that way. Do you think it possible, that Peeves traveled to Borgin & 
Burkes and picked up something of importance for book 7? 

Orna