Harry Potter: What Is A Squib?

The fifth Harry Potter book – The Order of the Phoenix dedicates its first chapter to the Dementor attack in Little Whinging. Titled, “Dudley Demented,” the chapter talks about angst-ridden Harry’s summer vacation at the Dursley household. He’s been having nightmares about Cedric Diggory, he listens to the television news by lying in a flower bed outside the living room window of Four, Privet Drive, and he’s spent most of his holidays in the streets, scavenging newspapers from the garbage bins. The first chapter also mentions that lately the cat-loving lady from the nearby Wisteria Walk, Mrs. Arabella Figg had begun asking Harry for tea whenever she met him in the street.