[HPforGrownups] Re: Eileen Prince

[James Sharman]

No: HPFGUIDX 156299

My impression is that there is no actual difference between a squib and a
muggle. The name is probably a derivative of "damp squib" (A small explosive
that fails to go off) and carries the suggestion that squibs really should
have been magical (Due to heritage) but failed to go off.

 

There is a social difference as well, in the general case muggles have no
idea about the magical world, by their very nature the squibs were born into
a world they will never be full members of, so this provides a strong
separation between them and muggles even without any physiological
difference.

 

 

 

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Abergoat:
> Yes, and why Neville said his family thought he was 'all muggle' for
> ages in PS/SS! Had JKR not developed the term squib yet?

They could be interchangeable. there's no textual basis for there
being any real difference between squibs and muggles, any more than
between muggleborn and pureblood/halfblood/second-gen wizards.
Remember, "you are either magical or you are not".

> Or is squib a term that 'polite' society avoids?

It could be that "squib" is to "wizard-born muggle" as "mudblood" is
to "muggle-born wizard".

 



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