Question re: muggles and dementors

[rhkennerly]

No: HPFGUIDX 187967



> Montavilla47:
> I don't think it's as hard as you're making it.  

I think you and I are on the same wavelength.  I was responding to a couple of posts and a chart published earlier.  


> Montavilla47:
> 
> I'm not sure why you are making a distinction between "dud" and 
> "squib."  If, by "dud" you mean a person without magical ability, then

Again, in the previous posts was a discussion of a difference between a non-magical child born to muggles who also had a magical child and a non-magical child born to wizarding families.  I don't see that distinction in the canon. I called that kid a dud, the non-Magical child of a wizarding family--just to make a distinction.  

I was also pointing out the inconsistency in JKR's online explanation of a Squib that another post used as an example.  In the first sentence JKR says they have no magical powers (a muggle) but then goes on to say they can handle magical objects and magical animals. So they do have some magical gifts as opposed to a pure muggle.  

> Montavilla47:
> 
> It's pretty clear to me that she learned about it through hearsay.

OTOH, she did manage to contact the Headmaster of Hogwarts on her own.  The canon is ambiguous about how she did this. 


Rick