How do Mudbloods get magic?

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 do Muggle-borns become 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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Can a Muggle gain magic?

A Muggle gaining one wouldn't just effectively have a stick in their hand but could produce an uncontrollable magical effect. Muggles can't necessarily perform magic, but with a wand, they could cause some to manifest in an uncontrollable manner.
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Can Mudbloods learn magic?

Muggle-borns get magic from wizard ancestry.
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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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How Muggleborns Are Told They Are Magical



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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How did JK Rowling come up with Muggle?

Rowling has created the word "Muggle" from "mug", an English term for someone who is easily fooled. She added the "-gle" to make it sound less demeaning and more "cuddly".
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How do Muggle-borns get their letter?

When Muggle-born witches and wizards reached the age of eleven in the British wizarding community, their Hogwarts acceptance letters were delivered in person by a member of the staff, instead of by owl post (the usual postal system for wizards and witches).
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Can a Squib see a Dementor?

But Squibs can still immerse themselves in the magical

And although Harry isn't convinced Arabella Figg can see Dementors, she certainly describes their soul-sucking powers rather well, and protests that she can.
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Could a Muggle use a wand?

Yes, a muggle can do something with a wand. Bartholomew had disseminated his leaflets widely, and a few newspapers had taken him seriously enough to print pictures of Dorcus's wand and note that it 'had a kick like a mule' if waved. We have a similar quote from Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
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What happens if a Muggle sees magic?

Thus, in the modern age, most Muggles believed magic to be nothing but a childish fantasy. Wizards and witches hid their world with Muggle-Repelling Charms, and if a Muggle witnessed a magical event or saw a magical creature such as a dragon, their memories were erased.
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Can Muggles fly broomsticks?

Wands and brooms (and flying cars) are tools that channel magic. Thus the same way that Muggles cannot use wands to perform magic, they wouldn't be able to use brooms to fly.
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Is J.K. Rowling a Squib?

The theory that the wizarding world is real and J.K. Rowling is somehow involved might sound like it belongs in The Quibbler, but it's bounced around the Potterverse internet for as long as its existed. Some maintain that Rowling is a Squib — a non-magical person unlucky enough to be born to a Magical family.
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How do Muggle-borns have money?

Owners. Muggle money was a wizarding term used to refer to the currency used by non-magic people, with varying types depending on nationality. It couldn't be used in the wizarding world because wizards and witches had their own currency, which in Great Britain consisted of galleons, sickles and knuts.
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How are Muggles chosen?

When Muggle-born witches and wizards reach the age of eleven in the British wizarding community, their Hogwarts acceptance letters are delivered in person by a member of the staff, instead of by owl post (the usual postal system for wizards and witches).
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Can a Muggle-born be in Slytherin?

It is not impossible if a muggleborn witch/wizard have the traits and values of Sytherin, and Slytherin doesn't mean they only accept purebloods but also halfbloods and that halfbloods are really talented and great like Snape he is a potion master and Umbridge also she was a Slytherin.
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Was Aunt Petunia a Squib?

The fan asked the author if Aunt Petunia was a Squib (a non-magical person who is born to at least one magical parent) and Rowling replied: "Good question. No, she is not, she is not a Squib. She is a Muggle.
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Was Harry's neighbor a Muggle?

Arabella Figg lived in a Muggle community, working undercover for the Order of the Phoenix. Most of her job involved watching Harry Potter and ensuring that no harm came to him from Lord Voldemort. During times when the Dursley family went on holiday, they left Harry Potter with Mrs.
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Can Mr Filch do magic?

Despite his magical parentage, Filch was a Squib, meaning he could not perform magic.
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How do Muggle-borns get to Diagon Alley?

The only Muggles given access are those accompanying their Muggle-born children. Wizards seeking access to Diagon Alley by foot will pass through The Leaky Cauldron, an inn invisible to Muggles who walk past from the Muggle side.
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What is the child of two Muggle-borns called?

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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Do the parents of Muggle-borns know about Hogwarts?

Muggle parents of wizards are told of magic and about Hogwarts. Muggle parents of wizard children are told about Hogwarts when their child is accepted, someone comes to explain to them that their child is a wizard and will be accepted into a school for wizards.
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Can a Muggle marry a wizard?

Eileen Prince and Merope Gaunt married Muggles, Muggle/wizard marriages were seen as lesser unions. Many marriages would have likely been looked down upon, such as James Potter's marriage to Muggle-born Lily Evans, or Ron Weasley's marriage to Muggle-born Hermione Granger.
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How do Muggles not see Hogwarts?

In Goblet of Fire, Hermione explains that Muggles cannot see Hogwarts: '[Hogwarts is] bewitched,' said Hermione. 'If a Muggle looks at it, all they see is a mouldering old ruin with a sign over the entrance saying DANGER, DO NOT ENTER, UNSAFE. '
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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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