Re: Longbottom's magical problems

caz820 wrote: 
But while DD said "she wouldn't use magic to save her life"
Morfin/Marvolo called her "a stinking squib" so how do we know whether
she was a squib  or just really depressed?

She used magic in the same scene where Marvolo called her a Squib. He jeered at her for not reaching for her wand immediately to clean something up. I'd say it's pretty clear Marvolo, in his demented viciousness and obsession with blood purity, used "Squib" when he meant "not as skilled at magic as a descendant of Salazar Slytherin is supposed to be."
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