How are Mudbloods born?

Mudbloods: Wizards can be born from non-magical parents because these mutations can pop up out of nowhere. There's a better chance of you being magical if your parents are on the high side of the normal range. Squibs: Would be the offspring that are born to magical parents but don't inherit the dominant wizarding gene.
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How are Muggle-borns chosen?

Muggle-borns inherit magic from a distant ancestor; they are descended from Squibs who have married Muggles and whose families had lost the knowledge of their wizarding legacy.
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How can 2 Muggles have a wizard child?

It's not depended on any criteria, it mainly depends on gene A wizard have to born with the magic gene regardless of their parents. Those born to Muggle families but who are skilled with and have the magic gene are referred to as Muggle-borns. A child born with magic to two Muggle parents is considered a Muggle-born.
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What makes someone a Mudblood?

Mudblood is a derogatory term for a Muggle-born or Half-blood wizard or witch; that is, individuals with no wizarding parents or grandparents.
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Do two Muggle-borns make a Halfblood?

It has nothing to do with genes and is just a construct of wizarding society. So the magical child of two muggle-born would be half-blood and a non-magical chld of two muggle-born a squib.
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What happens if a half-blood marries a pureblood?

If a halfblood marries a pureblood will their children be pureblood or halfblood | Fandom. An individual is Pure-blood if they have no Muggle or Muggle-born parents or grandparents.
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Is James Sirius Potter a pureblood?

Print. Harry James Potter holds half-blood status in Rowling's imagined wizarding world because his mother is Muggle-born and his father is pure-blood. There are three main blood statuses; pure-blood, half-blood, and Muggle-born, which are all methods of determining a witch or wizard's magical lineage.
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How do you become a pureblood?

Pure-blood individuals were people who had no Muggles or Muggle-borns as parents or grandparents. Traditionalist pure-bloods liked to keep the generations "pure" by breeding with other pure-bloods and were generally the ones who used the term "Mudblood", a term considered highly derogatory by the wizarding world.
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How do Muggle-borns have magic?

Origin of magical abilities

Muggle-borns inherit magic from a distant ancestor; they are descended from Squibs who have married Muggles and whose families had lost the knowledge of their wizarding legacy. The magic resurfaces unexpectedly many generations later.
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Is Hermione a mud blood?

Hermione referred to herself as a Mudblood while arguing with Griphook in 1998; when Ron Weasley said not to call herself that, she rejoined, "Mudblood, and proud of it!"
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Can slytherins be Muggle-born?

So they asked Harry what his house was. He said Slytherin, and, since he could describe Slytherin's common room, they believed him. And from that moment on, they accept that he's not a Muggle-born on the run. Cause for them, being a Slytherin is not compatible with being a Muggle-born.
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Could a Muggle use a wand?

Although he couldn't necessarily cast spells, his use of the wand produced a powerful enough blast that it "kicked like a mule" when waved. This further suggests that, within the world of Harry Potter, Muggles can use wands and access magic.
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Is Dumbledore a pureblood?

An interesting fact of note is that despite the ideals that pure-bloods are inherently more powerful wizards, some of the most powerful or particularly adept wizards and witches in the series are in fact either half-blood (such as Lord Voldemort, Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, Severus Snape and Harry Potter) or ...
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How is Hermione a witch if her parents are Muggles?

Her life before Hogwarts is pretty vague. Know how Hermione a Wizard When Her Parents are Muggles? Hermione was born to her muggle/dentist parents and led a pretty common childhood. But contrary to children in wizard families, she inherited the magic genes despite her muggle background.
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Was Lily Potter a Muggle?

Harry Potter's mother, Lily Evans, and his best friend, Hermione Granger, were Muggle-born. Unlike children of wizarding families who receive their Hogwarts acceptance letter via an owl, a Hogwarts employee will usually hand-deliver the letter to Muggle-borns in order to meet their Muggle parents and explain.
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Can Mudbloods learn magic?

Muggle-borns get magic from wizard ancestry.
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Who is the strongest Muggle?

Because of his son, the Dark Lord Voldemort, Tom Riddle Senior is nearly the most powerful muggle in the Harry Potter franchise. Not only is he powerful because of his son, but he's also powerful because of the affluence, money, and power he inherited from his parents.
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Are Muggle-borns rare?

The chances that any one of their children will inherit the r allele from both parents are 1 in 4, so the odds of having a Muggle-born (rr) child are about 1 birth in 10,000. Not common, but common enough that there are a good number of Muggle-borns.
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How do Muggles pay for Hogwarts?

In the real-life version of Gringotts Bank at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park in Orlando, muggles can pay real-life money for Gringotts bank notes, which can be used to pay for things around the park, or kept for souveniers.
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Why did Bellatrix call Harry a half-blood?

Harry is a half-blood, like the half-blood prince, because his mother was a muggleborn (aka a mud-blood). In the wizarding world there are: purebloods: those with wizard parents and grandparents. muggleborns: those with muggle parents and grandparents.
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Are all Death Eaters pure-blood?

Such people are often called "blood traitors" by those who subscribe to Death Eater ideologies. In reality, the idea of blood purity is a misnomer – Voldemort himself is a half-blood – and it is unlikely that all of them could be pure-bloods, as very few, if any, such people could exist given the small gene pool.
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Is Newt Scamander a pure-blood?

We know that during events in Paris, Leta Lestrange attended the pure-bloods ball with Theseus Scamander, Newt's older brother, where they met Yaxley. This ball was only for pure-blood wizards.
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Why is Albus Severus Potter a half-blood?

Albus Severus Potter is a half blood. However if one were to know that on his mother's side descends not only the Weasley family but also the Prewett family. From his father's side obviously comes from the Peverell, Black and Potter family. Hello fellow muggles, squibs, pure-bloods, half-bloods and muggleborns!
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Why are the Potters not part of the sacred 28?

Why didn't the Potters make the Sacred Twenty-Eight? Potter is a common Muggle surname. Harry's family didn't make the list, according to J.K. Rowling, because 'the anonymous compiler of that supposedly definitive list of pure-bloods suspected that they had sprung from what he considered to be tainted blood'.
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