The movies also show a gramophone being used at Hogwarts and individual professors might have radios or gramophones in their living quarters. Many fictional magical creatures exist in the series, while ordinary creatures also sometimes exhibit magical properties. Skip to content Helpful tips. May 5, Joe Ford. The Commission punished anyone who could not prove to have wizarding heritage for this alleged action, sentencing them to Azkaban. Anyone who resisted was threatened with, and perhaps given, the Dementor's Kiss.
They also issued two Ministerial Decrees stating that it was any wizards' duty to report suspected "Mudbloods" to them and that failure to do so would result in imprisonment. This led some Muggle-borns, such as Dirk Cresswell , to forge their family trees.
Those who refused to register, such as Ted Tonks , were forced to go on the run and were pursued by Snatchers , sometimes fatally. This was ended with Voldemort's final defeat in and the reform of the Ministry under new Minister for Magic Kingsley Shacklebolt. Hermione Granger would be crucial in eliminating pro-pure-blood laws as a high-ranking member of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. The Slug Club , Slughorn's hand-picked students, some of which are Muggle-born.
There are also indications that a subtler, less virulent form of prejudice against Muggle-borns was relatively common in the wizarding world. For example, Horace Slughorn discriminated more on the grounds of talent or fame, rather than blood status. However, Slughorn generally expected his more talented students to be pure-bloods , and was surprised when Muggle-borns performed very well.
When he remarked upon this to Harry Potter in and Harry responded coldly, Slughorn was genuinely surprised, and insisted that he was not prejudiced. However, Slughorn could have also meant that since Muggle-borns were not raised around magic, it was all the more astonishing when they did very well in school. The British Ministry of Magic also seemed to have mildly favoured pure-bloods for many years before it was reformed after the Second Wizarding War , as there were still "pro-pure-blood laws" in existence, which Hermione later eliminated.
Albus Dumbledore also once accused Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge himself of placing too much importance on blood purity, as Fudge was sided more with old, wealthy and influential pure-blood families such as the Malfoys , and looked down upon those who had less wealth and more affiliation with Muggles , like the Weasleys.
It was a widely held belief in the wizarding world that Muggle-borns were more likely to produce Squib children and slower to show signs of magic in childhood than pure or half-blood wizards. These stereotypes were disproven by the Institute of Muggle Studies , though they also disproved the positive beliefs that Muggle-borns have greater immunity to wizarding illnesses and a natural sense of rhythm. Harry Potter Wiki Explore. Rowling Story. Explore Wikis Community Central.
Register Don't have an account? View source. History Talk Do you like this video? Play Sound. Although Muggles had no magical abilities, they had technology to make up for it. But many forms of sophisticated Muggle technology, such as electricity , naturally did not work well inside the wizarding world. The technology in question had to be magically powered, such as Arthur Weasley 's Ford Anglia.
Even though the Muggles lacked magic, they still posed a threat to the wizarding world. In the modern day, the Minister for Magic and the Prime Minister maintained a good relationship to ensure the safety of both worlds.
Muggles had found many fascinating ways to make up for their lack of magic, using technology to perform tasks for which wizards used magic. Examples of such inventions included:. Muggle is derived from the word "mug", which refers to a gullible person. Rowling has commented that she added a syllable to soften the word, which she wanted to suggest "both foolishness and lovability". Wizards define themselves in contrast to muggle, since the words "wizard" and "wisdom" have a common etymological origin.
Harry Potter Wiki Explore. Rowling Story. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Non-magic people. View source. History Talk Do you like this video? Play Sound. Or has this been happening inside my head?
Should any such creature cause harm to, or draw the notice of, the Muggle community, that nation's wizarding governing body will be subject to discipline by the International Confederation of Wizards. If we hadn't married Muggles we'd've died out. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!
Rowling regarding how Muggles view wizards [src]. We've all got to listen to her explain how Muggles are like animals, stupid and dirty, and how they drive wizards into hiding by being vicious toward them, and how the natural order is being re-established. Ingenious, really, how many ways Muggles have found of getting along without magic. The Harry Potter Wiki has images related to Non-magic people.
Rowling and the Live Chat, Bloomsbury. Categories Muggles. Universal Conquest Wiki. Babatola [31]. The gardener for the Riddle family , murdered by Lord Voldemort. Chalk [31]. A milkman and father of Colin and Dennis Creevey.
Husband of Petunia, father of Dudley, and director of a drill making company called Grunnings. Dudley's children. The two [32] children of Dudley Dursley and his wife. Parents of Petunia and Lily Evans. Mr Granger. Dentists and parents of Hermione Granger. Mrs Granger. Harrison [31]. A No-Maj factory worker and later baker who befriended Newt Scamander. Brother of Jacob; killed during World War I.
Mr McGonagall. Mrs McGonagall. Robert McGonagall Snr. A Muggle Reverend and Presbyterian minister who lived in Scotland. A reporter for Metro , a British Muggle newspaper. Husband of Tilly and father of twins Jack and Tom. Pepper [31]. The son of Thomas and Mary. Scott [31]. Found unconscious in a Yorkshire graveyard by Mathilda Grimblehawk and her partner after she was attacked.
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