Can a Squib see a Dementor?

You'll leave details of your parentage with my assistant Weasley. Incidentally, can Squibs see Dementors? ' he added, looking left and right along the bench. 'Yes, we can!
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Can Squibs actually see Dementors?

But Squibs can still immerse themselves in the magical

And although Harry isn't convinced Arabella Figg can see Dementors, she certainly describes their soul-sucking powers rather well, and protests that she can.
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Can Squibs see Hogwarts?

Squib is born to witch and wizard parents who give child up for adoption in muggle world. Child grows up not knowing about the wizarding world. Child becomes adult who is out one day with a hunting party. Squib is the only one to see it and peers think they are crazy.
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Can a Squib have a magical child?

On a rare occasion, non-magical parents (muggles) can produce magical offspring, called muggle-borns. In even rarer cases, some magical parents could have children incapable of magic, known as squibs. Squibs can interact with the magical world, which implies that they have slightly more magical ability than muggles.
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Can others see Dementors?

"The only magical creatures we see in the novels that Muggles are incapable of seeing are the Dementors and the Thestrals (most likely - we never see Muggles near them). The Dementors are dark, evil creatures, the stuff of nightmares.
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Is Mrs Figg a Squib?

Mrs. Arabella Doreen Figg was a Squib, a dealer of cross-bred cats and kneazles, and a member of the Order of the Phoenix.
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Can Squibs see ghosts?

In light of J.K. Rowling's statements about Squibs being unable to see Dementors, as well as her statement that Muggles cannot clearly perceive ghosts, and her assertion that a Squib is a “non-magical person born to at least one magical parent,” it does seem likely that Filch could not have clearly perceived the ghosts ...
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Can Muggles see Obscurials?

Second peice of evidence is the Obscurial attacks, it's completely invisible to the muggles that are present, up until his reveal when we are seeing it through the eyes of a wizard.
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Can a squib be pure blood?

Squibs are born into half-blood/pure-blood families but do not possess the power to use magic (though they would be carriers of the gene). Half-breeds are half-bloods/pure-bloods with a non-human ancestor.
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Is Petunia a squib?

The fan asked the author if Aunt Petunia was a Squib (a non-magical person who is born to at least one magical parent) and Rowling replied: "Good question. No, she is not, she is not a Squib. She is a Muggle.
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What can Squibs do that Muggles can t?

Other than caretaker, here are some wizarding professions that squibs could do. Why squib and not muggles? Because squibs still able to percieve and recognise magic while muggles cannot. For example,squibs can find concealed magic communities while muggles cannot.
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Is Gilderoy Lockhart a Squib?

Gilderoy Lockhart is not a Squib - he just is not a very accomplished wizard. He was in Ravenclaw House, so I think that the Headmaster would have noticed if he was a Squib.
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Can Squibs see magic?

In addition to being born into magical families, Squibs differed from Muggles by their knowledge of the wizarding world. They were able to see things that were hidden from the Muggles and use magical objects and creatures.
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Can Mudbloods see Dementors?

While Muggles cannot see Dementors, their draining power is so strong that non-magical people can still sense them.
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Is Jacob a Squib?

He might have the right intentions after all, but Hogwarts' charms should not be overridden by any professor, even if they are as powerful as Albus Dumbledore. There is another option and is that Jacob is a Squib (just like Filch), but without him knowing it.
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Can Muggles ride broomsticks?

Wands and brooms (and flying cars) are tools that channel magic. Thus the same way that Muggles cannot use wands to perform magic, they wouldn't be able to use brooms to fly.
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What happens if pureblood marries Squib?

Pure-blood + pure-blood = pure-blood. Even if one of them is a squib. For example, if a pure-blood squib Marius Black[1] had married a pure-blood witch, their children would have been a pure-blood as well. If a squib marries a muggle, will their child be a muggle or a witch/wizard?
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What happens if a half-blood marries a pureblood?

If a halfblood marries a pureblood will their children be pureblood or halfblood | Fandom. An individual is Pure-blood if they have no Muggle or Muggle-born parents or grandparents.
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Why did Bellatrix call Harry a half-blood?

Harry is a half-blood, like the half-blood prince, because his mother was a muggleborn (aka a mud-blood). In the wizarding world there are: purebloods: those with wizard parents and grandparents. muggleborns: those with muggle parents and grandparents.
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Why is Harry not an Obscurial?

So it seems like shame and fear of magic are the primary catalysts to a child producing an Obscurus, and since Harry wasn't raised to feel ashamed of what he was, he never became an Obscurial.
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Can you cure an obscurus?

According to Albus Dumbledore, an Obscurial could possibly be healed by replacing their feelings of alienation, which ultimately created their Obscurus, with a sense of belonging.
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Can Muggles see Fantastic Beasts?

Show activity on this post. It is not that they cannot see them so much as any sightings are actively suppressed by both the Ministry of Magic and the muggle governments. The minister says as much when he visits after Harry saves Dudley and Hagrid alludes to it when he first picks up Harry.
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Can Mrs Figg see the Dementors?

Though she was a little nervous (well, who wouldn't be when facing the entire Wizengamot?), Mrs Figg voiced her outrage that she wasn't in the Ministry of Magic's records, stood by her statement that she saw the Dementors, and was the sole testifier who helped clear Harry of the charges against him.
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Is Neville a Squib?

Neville Longbottom was thought to be a Squib by his relatives because of this, though he proved to be magical. Similarly, Merope Gaunt was called a Squib by her father Marvolo as a slur, due to her poor magical abilities, inhibited by her fear of her father and brother.
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Was Ariana Dumbledore a Squib?

In Rita Skeeter's biography, The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore, she claims it was Kendra's shame at having produced a Squib which made her keep her out of the public eye. Ariana wasn't a squib though, she sounds more like an Obscurial - the same as Credence.
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