Oh my God There's an official story on Pottermore about the world's most famous Squib, Angus Buchanan Who came from a big family and whose siblings protected him from his conservative parents his whole childhood, faking magical ability on his behalf
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And yeah the thing is Hogwarts is almost sadistic about just making every damn thing as inaccessible to Muggles as possible, IIRC part of your training is you have to learn Alohomora as one of your first spells and the school is full of locked doors you can only open with it
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This hypothetical Squib would get caught on the first day of gym class, where you have to go "Up!" to a broom and fly on it, something that's supposed to be, if not impossible, very dangerous for Muggles to try and do (Gym class is fucking bullshit in any setting)
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I feel bad because ink-splotch is dirgewithoutmusic on AO3, the writer of the "Boy With a Scar" series of fanfics that have kind of a tragic, Tumblresque optimism about the politics of the series that Rowling herself would have disdained there's a trans harry AU, a squib AU, etc
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I used to really like them because ink-splotch actually has decent politics, like the Squib!Harry fanfic is about him going to Hogwarts because he's obviously still the Chosen One, and siblings of other squibs at Hogwarts disdaining him for the special privilege he gets to enjoy
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