We know Muggle parents can have a magical child, but could magical parents have a Muggle child?
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5They're known as squibs not muggles – Edlothiad Mar 18 '17 at 13:18
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In the dupe target the question being asked is actually "Wizards can be born to Muggles. Can Muggles be born to wizards?" – Skooba Mar 18 '17 at 13:32
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@Skooba - But the dupe (or rather your answer to it) does make it clear that squibs are born to wizards, not muggles. Which makes it a dupe – Valorum Mar 18 '17 at 14:33
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Depends what you mean by 'Muggle'.
A Squib is a person with no magical powers born to magical parents. They fall somewhere in between a wizard and a Muggle: while unable to actually perform magic, they can still access the magical world. From the Pottermore fact file:
Humans with little or no magical talent born into wizarding families, who are looked down on by the wizarding world
Appearance: Usually dressed like the rest of wizard-kind
Magic Abilities: Able to access the wizarding world, unlike Muggles, and can use certain magical objects and creatures
We even see a couple of these in the main HP stories: Argus Filch, the unpleasant janitor of Hogwarts, and Arabella Figg, the cat-loving neighbour of the Dursleys. But according to Ron, they're not very common:
A Squib is someone who was born into a wizarding family but hasn’t got any magic powers. Kind of the opposite of Muggle-born wizards, but Squibs are quite unusual.
-- Ron Weasley, HP and the Chamber of Secrets
See also Is a Squib a Muggle?
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Q. If a squib was raised as a muggle, would they be a muggle? Answer. Not according to Graves in the new Fantastic Beasts film. – Valorum Mar 18 '17 at 14:36
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@Valorum: What do you mean? I thought the Fantastic Beasts film showed what happened to a wizard who was raised as a muggle, not a squib. – wyvern Mar 03 '18 at 00:29