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Cedric Diggory
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 Posted: October 9, 2008 3:06 pm Post subject: Is she a witch? |
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I'm not for sure about this question. I have read HBP many times, proubly around 6 or 7 but I can't come into this conclusion. Is Marvolo Gaunt's daughter a Witch or a Squib. Marvolo calls her a squib because of her magical ability is really weak. But later on in the same chapter it says that the daughter was a Witch who didn't use her powers to the fullest when she was being treated badly buy Marvolo. So can someone make this clear for me?
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she's a witch. she used her wand to try to pick up the pot, but she didn't do it right. and she brewed a love potion. she may not have been a good witch or had much talent, but she had some magical ability
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Cedric Diggory
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Alright, cause I wasn't for sure. Cause most Squibs do have a wand, they are just not very good at magic you know? And I was wondering if she just didn't use her full magical ability when she was around her family. But thanks, appreciate it.
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| Cedric Diggory wrote: |
| Alright, cause I wasn't for sure. Cause most Squibs do have a wand, they are just not very good at magic you know? And I was wondering if she just didn't use her full magical ability when she was around her family. But thanks, appreciate it. |
Squibs can't perform magic at all.
Merope was a witch, but her family was just awful to her... it's almost as if they made her nervous or something. AT one time she might n ot have been very talented, but we know she certainly was talented enough to create a love potion.
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Cedric Diggory
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| Cedric Diggory wrote: |
| Alright, cause I wasn't for sure. Cause most Squibs do have a wand, they are just not very good at magic you know? And I was wondering if she just didn't use her full magical ability when she was around her family. But thanks, appreciate it. |
Squibs can't perform magic at all.
Merope was a witch, but her family was just awful to her... it's almost as if they made her nervous or something. AT one time she might n ot have been very talented, but we know she certainly was talented enough to create a love potion. |
Interresting. I thought that Squibs were Wizards/Witches that were extremely poorly at magic? What is the right definition of a Squib?
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A Squib is a non-magical person who is born to at least one magical parent. Squibs are, in essence, the opposite of Muggle-born witches and wizards. They are rare and are looked upon with some degree of disdain by some witches and wizards, particularly pure-bloods. J.K. Rowling has stated that Muggle-born witches and wizards are descended from Squibs who married Muggles; the magical gene resurfaces after many generations unexpectedly.
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Squib
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Ok, what is with the wiki nonsense? *hates wiki with an undying passion* If you're going to quote from somewhere, use mugglenet or Lexicon... where even JKR herself goes and checks her own info.
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Squib
A non-magic person born of wizarding parents, a much rarer phenomenon than a Muggle-born witch or wizard.
-Arabella Figg
-Argus Filch
A Squib is not a Muggle. Born to a wizarding family, a Squib has such a low level of magical power that he or she is essentially unable to do any magic at all. However, while a Squib cannot cast spells, he or she can apparently see magical beings such as poltergeists, though not dementors (JKR).
Some Squibs seem to have formed special bonds with cats, whom they refer to as Mr or Mrs. It is possible that these cats function as guides and aides to Squibs as they live in a world in which they don't really fit. In a sense, these cats may be the wizarding equivalent of Guide Dogs and other animals which are trained to help Muggles with disabilities.
"squib" - Eng. a dud firework that won't ignite properly
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizworld/blood-status-names.html#Squib |
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So, a Squib is someone whose parents are both a Wizard and a Witch? And the Squib just has no magical ability at all, but is still born to both parents being a Wizard and a Witch?
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| So, a Squib is someone whose parents are both a Wizard and a Witch? And the Squib just has no magical ability at all, but is still born to both parents being a Wizard and a Witch? |
a squid = the opposit of a muggle born. here's a simpiler explanation:
Witch/wizard witch/muggle wizard/muggle
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..............non magic kid = squib
Muggle/muggle
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..witch or wizard = muggle born
i hope you understood that lol
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A squib is someone born to magical parents, but with no magical abilities themselves.
Merope was a Witch, but because of how badly she was treated by her family, she was a fairly weak witch.
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I'm almost 100% sure, she was a witch, but as Sparks said, due to her poor treatment, she just wasn't very good at magic.
I don't believe Squibs can perform any sort of magic at all.
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brewing a love potion requires magic (even though there is no silly wand waving). that alone proves she was a witch
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Ok, what is with the wiki nonsense? *hates wiki with an undying passion* If you're going to quote from somewhere, use mugglenet or Lexicon... where even JKR herself goes and checks her own info.
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Squib
A non-magic person born of wizarding parents, a much rarer phenomenon than a Muggle-born witch or wizard.
-Arabella Figg
-Argus Filch
A Squib is not a Muggle. Born to a wizarding family, a Squib has such a low level of magical power that he or she is essentially unable to do any magic at all. However, while a Squib cannot cast spells, he or she can apparently see magical beings such as poltergeists, though not dementors (JKR).
Some Squibs seem to have formed special bonds with cats, whom they refer to as Mr or Mrs. It is possible that these cats function as guides and aides to Squibs as they live in a world in which they don't really fit. In a sense, these cats may be the wizarding equivalent of Guide Dogs and other animals which are trained to help Muggles with disabilities.
"squib" - Eng. a dud firework that won't ignite properly
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizworld/blood-status-names.html#Squib |
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Just thinking that the Lexicon has got something wrong cause in OotP Mrs Figg describes the dementors at harry's hearing with the Wizengamot.
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Just thinking that the Lexicon has got something wrong cause in OotP Mrs Figg describes the dementors at harry's hearing with the Wizengamot. |
i got the impression she was just describing what she might've read or what dumbledore told her. i think she described the feeling better because it's something she actually experienced.
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In CoS, when muggleborns were being attacked, Neville, a pureblood, bought a bunch of protective charms. He said it was because they went after Filch first and he was almost a Squib. I think the same is true of Merope, that she had magical powers but they were really weak and she was almost a squib.
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