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squib?

  • 27-06-2003 01:42PM
    #1
    Vlad_Tepes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭


    What's a squib, related to witches or magic?


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  • #2
    hussey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭hussey


    in harry potter they are people who should be witches/wizards who don't have any actual magic

    they are not muggles .. as they can see dementors etc


  • #3
    Vlad_Tepes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭Vlad_Tepes


    thanks....and thumbs up you guessed I was reading Harry Potter...but english is not my mother tongue


  • #4
    Gordon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,522 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    A squib is also a miniature explosives trigger I think.

    http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=squib


  • #5
    Amz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭Amz


    Yeah, a squib is a type of firework. Hence the phrase “A damp squib” which usually refers to an event that didn’t live up to expectations i.e. it didn’t go off as expected.


  • #6
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,607 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Originally posted by Vlad_Tepes
    thanks....and thumbs up you guessed I was reading Harry Potter...but english is not my mother tongue
    It's a term JK Rowling made up for the Harry Potter books I believe (this explains why you haven't been able to find an explanation in any dictionaries). I'd say the term comes from the firework definition as Amz mentioned.

    It's explained on page 110 of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets":
    Ron: "A Squib is someone who was born into a wizarding family but hasn't got any magical powers. Kind of the opposite of Muggle-born wizards"

    Neville Longbottom has always seemed close to being a Squib (though he'll probably surprise us all before the end in some big unexpected plot twist). Filch and Mrs Figgs are Squibs.


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