How do Muggle-borns become wizards?

Origin of magical abilities
Muggle-borns
Muggle-borns
Witches and wizards with non-magical parents are called Muggle-borns. There have also been some children known to have been born to one magical and one non-magical parent. People of this mixed parentage are called half-bloods; magical people with any Muggle ancestry on the one side or the other are half-bloods as well.
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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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How can two 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 is Hermione a witch if 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. The probability of passing down dormant magic genes till it surfaces in a later generation was uncommon but not impossible.
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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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Can Muggle-borns learn magic?

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



How are Muggles chosen to go to Hogwarts?

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 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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Can a Muggle fly a broom?

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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Can 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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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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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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Can Muggles see Diagon Alley?

Muggles can only see the Leaky Cauldron when they are invited to it. In the second or the third book, Hermione is visiting Diagon Alley with her parents. As far as we know there is no way into the Diagon Alley other than Leaky cauldron. (You can not expect muggles to use the teleportation dust).
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How did Hermione get into Hogwarts if she's a Muggle?

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 magical parents have non magical children?

A Squib, also known as a wizard-born, was a non-magical person who was born to at least one magical parent. Squibs were, in essence, "wizard-born Muggles".
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How does Hogwarts know about Muggle-borns?

There is a book at Hogwarts that writes down the name of any child that shows sufficient magical ability, thereby identifying muggle-borns to be invited and squibs not to be invited.
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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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Is Jacob a Squib?

He might have the right intentions after all, but Hogwarts' charms should not be overridden by any professor, even if they are as powerful as Albus Dumbledore. There is another option and is that Jacob is a Squib (just like Filch), but without him knowing it.
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Can Muggles see Dementors?

While Muggles cannot see Dementors, their draining power is so strong that non-magical people can still sense them.
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How much is Firebolt worth?

In GoF, the Triwizard Tournament prize is a thousand galleons and that's a significant amount. While Harry's in Diagon Alley in PoA, he overhears that the Ireland Quidditch team put an order of 7. Going on this information, each Firebolt would probably be slightly over 200 galleons.
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Who gave Harry the Nimbus 2000?

In the movie, professor Minerva McGonagall gives Harry Potter a Nimbus 2000 when he joins the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
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Is it Nimbus 2000 or 3000?

Broomstick information

The Nimbus 2000 was a broomstick produced by the Nimbus Racing Broom Company as part of their successful line of racing brooms. At the time of its release in 1991, it was the fastest broomstick in production.
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Who became head of Slytherin after Snape?

Horace Slughorn (1997 - present) Horace, after being convinced by Dumbledore and Harry Potter, returned to Hogwarts as the Potions master. After Severus killed Dumbledore and became headmaster of Hogwarts, it was decided that Horace was to become the Head of Slytherin House once again.
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Do house elves live forever?

According to the WOMBAT test, it is possible that house-elves have an average life expectancy of 200 years, cannot be ordered to kill themselves, breed infrequently and only with their master's permission, can override wizard enchantments, and have an allegiance to their home rather than its inhabitants.
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