Can you run away from a spell?

[Scellanis]

but a squib is meant to be a person with wizard parents with no magic.....but squibs can be given lessons.....filch is a squib but he had that quickspell letter

i think everyone has magic its just whether they can let it surface or not that determins what they are....

[Neo]

exactly, so people like Dursleys have almost npthing of magic in them, so they don't like (I think Petunia doesn't fear magic, just that she hates all the attention Lily received because of that) and this could b the reason that explains the characer that is going to have magic powers later in life

[Scellanis]

i dont think vernon or petunia are afraid of magic...they just despise it....petunia because lily had magic so she got all the attention...vernon because its abnormal, unexplainable.....neither of them seem to have any trouble standing up to people with magic until dudley gets involved.....

[Holly Golightly]

i think everyone has magic its just whether they can let it surface or not that determins what they are....

But Hagrid described them as non-magical folk in PS???

[Neo]

Yeah, but I think that they do not have enough magic to perform spells with a wand, so they can not be trained as wizards; but a little of magic everybody must have it, since there are wizards in muggle families, it must be genetic.

[Scellanis]

maybe all non magical people are muggles but the term has kind of got changed in everyday use to also mean person with a phobia of magic....

which would then mean that the dursleys are huge muggles by the fact they cant stand magic and dont want anything to do with it whereas say goths may be considered as not very muggle at all since they are totally into all this fantasy and magic type stuff and wouldnt mind at all if there were people with magic amongst them

but muggle still officially means non magical person....just gets used as a description of a persons attitude towards magic alot too...

[Neo]

Yeah, I know that is definition, and as you post it was made it make it simple to know who is a wizard and who not; just that imagine that people with mathematical intelligence were part of a selected group, called "maths", and only people with wnough mathematical capacity can be called a "math", that doesn't mean other people do not have mathematical capacity, just that it is not enough to be a "math"; I think is moreless the same thing with magic.

[Holly Golightly]

That's a very dtrange kind of thing to compare magic with Neo... becaue everyone can add, though some might not be able to intergrate.. but not everyone can do simple magic...

I see it are more like something having wings... it gives an ability to fly, and either you have wings thus the possible ability, or you don't, and never will be able to fly. You are either capable of doing magic, flying, or not. But just because you can fly, doesn't mean you can soar! ie fly well... some may onyl be able to go a few meters inteh air, and some like Flitches magical capability may be like a disabled bird... or one with very little wings... with alot of teaching, he will be able to fly short distances, but never very well!!!

*I live my little brid thingy!!!!*

Make sense?

But I mean, this doest' mean that I am right!!!

[Neo]

It makes sense; but think magic is a mental power (that's why the comparison with maths); and not a capacity from the body (which will be the wings)

[Holly Golightly]

Cos, chapter 1...

"The Dursleys were what wizards called Muggles (not a drop of magical blood in their veins)"

maybe its a physical blood thing... after all, Voldie got Harry's magical protection through his blood too...

[Neo]

I think that the blood thing is only used as an expression; it is more common than when your father used to do something, and you arre good a t it, "it is in your blood"; but it could be part too.

[Holly Golightly]

yeah, I know Neo, and that's what I though at first too... then I realised about Harry's pretection being passed through his blood, and got to wondering?

It was jsut an idea...

[Neo]

Well, of course it could be; but then it alsoc ould be that depending on the wizard level in your blood if you are enough to go to Hogwarts.

[Liquid Ice]

I dont think you can dodge spells because you raise your wand while you say the spell and THEN you aim where you want it so you cant dodge it untill its been aimed and then its a bit late after that. But you can dodge if you have something solid like a gravestone to hide behind.(Like Harry did at the end of book 4)

[Meg Boyd]

I think you can dodge spells because in book 5 (yes I kno book five is taboo right now, but this is just a basic reference, no spoilers) the spells shot at the end seem to be more like lasers where people can dodge them, but they have to be mighty quick! It is better to have something block the spell though, I am guessing like the gravestone in book 4 and random things from book 5...la la la...