Bigotry or NOT? Re: CHAPDISC:HBP19,Elf Tails

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 157657

Eddie:

> > I'm Curious: Can a squib see the magical things a 
> > muggle can't? Leaky Cauldron, etc?
 
zgirnius:

> Muggles can't properly see Hogwarts. It seems Filch can.

houyhnhnm:

Hermione's parents are Muggles.  They shop in Diagon Alley 
and change money at Gringott's.  Arthur invites them for a 
drink in the Leaky Cauldron.  There is no mention that they 
have to be led, so presumably they can see everything.

We have never seen the Grangers at Hogwarts (or any other 
non-magical parent of a Hogwarts student, AFAIK), but I can't 
recall any explicit statement that Muggles of Hogwarts students 
could not visit.

I don't see any evidence that Muggles are inherently unable 
to see magical places, only that those places have been charmed 
so that Muggles who do not know they are there cannot 
see them (something like the way the Fidelius charm works).

On the other hand, Muggles are inherently unable to see 
Dementors, but so are Squibs.

There is some evidence that Squibs do not respond to magical 
healing in the same way that wizards do.  The slow healing of 
Mrs. Figg's broken leg is one.  Another is the way Filch drags 
around the school with an aching head and dripping nose when 
all the sick young witches and wizards are going to Madam 
Pomfrey for a dose of pepper-up potion.

I would say that if a non-magical child is born to magical 
parents, it is called a Squib, if to non-magical parents, 
it is called a Muggle.  I see no evidence in the books to 
the contrary, and trying to work it out logically is pointless 
because the whole notion of a fertile cross between such 
radically different beings is absurd anyway.