[HPforGrownups] Petunia squib or not? WAS: Re: Random Questions from The Boy Who Lived

[Jeremiah LaFleur]

No: HPFGUIDX 164951

tthinc:

> Greetings,
>
> JK is the only one who can confirm this but,
>
> I believe that our dear sweet Petunia is a squib and the angst
against
> her sister is centered around this. That and the fact that she was
> killed by LV has made her very fearful of the WW.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Its really a shame that JK is going to end all this in Book 7.
Like
> to see more.
>
> Cheers, tthinc

Alcuin:

Petunia can't be a squib since her and Lily's parents were Muggles.
By definiton, a squib is someone born of wizarding parentage yet who
does not have magical abilities.

p.s. - my apologies if this ends up as a double post. Having
connection problems here.
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Jeremiah:

Alcun has it right. Petunia and Lily's parents were Muggles as far as we
know. JKR has expressed that in amny ways and that's why it is said that
Lily was Muggle-born and Half-Blood and what-not.

Flich is a Sqib and Mrs Arabella Figg is a Squib because they come from
Wizarding families and are not able to produce magic.

I believe Petunia's anger comes from her statements in PS/SS where she rants
in the cabin about how Lily would come home from "that school" with pockets
full of frog spawn and turning mice into teacups. She rants about how porud
her parents were of having a witch in the family. Now, nobody knows, except
JKR, whether or not there had been a witch or wizard in the family
previously but there isn't any evidence which supports them being wizards.
(As far as I know. tthinc, if you have other evidence then I'd like to know
what it is). Seeing as how Slughorn refers to her as Muggle-born (I think
that's right... I don't think it was Half-Blood) then I'd say tthinc was
having some confusion as to what a Squib is. And that's totally
understandable.

What interrests me is how much Petunia knows. We can see she knows about
Dementors... she looks outside the window nervously after Harry tells her
about Dudly's attack. Harry (the story is told from harry's perspective)
assumes Petunia knows nothing so he sees that action as Petunia being
paranoid about the neighbors hearing. I say she was looking to see if the
Dementors were still there. There are subtle things that Petunis knows.
Subtle actions on her part which shows her knowledge of the WW.

How about anyone else?


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