To the Extreme

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Magpie snipped:

James - very talented
Sirius - very talented

Snow:

Both of which have been said to be purebloods, right? All I can offer 
is a quote from JKR's website in rebuttal:

Section: F.A.Q.
Are all the pure-blood families going to die out? (We've lost the 
Blacks and the Crouches during the series)
Don't forget that, as Sirius revealed in 'Order of the Phoenix', none 
of these families is really 'pure' – in other words, they merely 
cross Muggles and Squibs off the family tree and pretend that they 
didn't exist. But yes, the number of families claiming to be pure is 
diminishing. By refusing to marry Muggles or Muggle-borns, they are 
finding it increasingly difficult to perpetuate themselves. This 
subject is touched upon in 'Half-Blood Prince'.

Magpie snipped:

We don't know that Squibs have to be the offspring of Purebloods and 
we 
don't know the parentage of any of the two Squibs we know.

Snow:

My apologies, I'll allow JKR to explain a squib:

Section: Extra Stuff

SQUIBS

I have been asked all sorts of questions about Squibs since I first 
introduced the concept in `Chamber of Secrets'. 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. 

Magpie snipped:

Characters often inherit traits from their parents, but nobody seems 
bound by their blood when it comes to talent.

Snow:

Except for squibs, whose parents are magical and yet they don't 
present themselves with even a bit of non-magical talent. 

We have known Filtch since the first book and the most I can say for 
him is that; he really likes his cat; he hates magical kids (or all 
kids); and he hates to clean up. 

Mrs. Figg's however, seems to have, at the very least acquired a 
skill with some type of potions, since the apothecary also smelled 
the same as her house (and Perkins tent). That's not to say that she 
has succeeded in producing any results. Then again, she could be the 
person who exhibits her powers late in life so...   

If you naturally inherit traits from your parents, via blood, 
wouldn't you at least exhibit some tendency towards some type of 
talent? 

Snow- who thinks that Dumbledore is muggleborn and his brother, 
Aberforth, is very unlike Petunia and more like Mrs. Figg's who is 
possibly talented in potions