 | WELCOME MUGGLE S U TURN HARRY POTTER THE MEANING OF MUGGLE |
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| | | | Muggle: is a word used in the Harry Potter series of books by J. K. Rowling to refer to a human who does not have magical abilities. The word was used in popular culture and literature prior to the usage by J. K. Rowling. However, the Harry Potter series popularised the word and it has come in to common usage. Muggle is a term, sometimes used in a pejorative manner, from the fictional Harry Potter series of books that refers to a human who is a member of the non-magical community. According to J. K. Rowling, a quarter of the annual Hogwarts intake have two Muggle parents[citation needed]; thus far in canon, there have also been a few children shown to derive from a mixed parentage of one magical parent and one Muggle parent. Children from mixed households families are called half-bloods (strictly speaking, they are 'Literal Half-bloods'); children with recent Muggle ancestry are also called Half-bloods (strictly speaking, 'Technical Half-bloods'). Children from Muggle families with no recent Wizarding ancestry are called Muggle-borns. Children from full wizarding families with no Muggle ancestry are called pure-bloods. The derisive wizarding word for a child with magical powers when both parents are Muggles is mudblood and is considered a great insult. Those from wizarding families with no magical abilities (very rare) are called Squibs. They do not appear identical to Muggles: Argus Filch can see the Hogwarts ghosts[citation needed], whereas Muggles are incapable of seeing ghosts. |
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| Muggle: In the Harry Potter books, Muggles are often portrayed as foolish, often befuddled characters who are completely ignorant to the Wizarding world around them. If, by unfortunate means, a Muggle does happen to notice the prescence of magic, he or she is cast with a Memory Charm.Some Muggles, however, know of the Wizarding world; the Grangers (Hermione Granger's parents), the Muggle Prime Minister (and his predecessors), and the Dursleys (Harry Potters only living relatives) being just a few of these. Informed Muggles generally keep quiet about magic to their uninformed fellows - either out of shame at their connection to magic, or terror of being disbelieved or thought mad or gullible. Some Muggles who come by knowledge of the magical world unconventionally do spread their knowledge: one man who had been a witness to a dragon attack on a beach told stories to anyone who would listen for years afterwards of the lizard puncturing his lilo.
J. K. Rowling said she 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." [1] It is unclear if she supposes the wizards to have derived it from the same word. |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Noble Collection has developed a range of widely sought Harry Potter collectibles – including replica Wands, Time Turners, Sculptures, replica models & Jewellry. All genuine replicas from the film series and each piece is exclusive to The Noble Collection | | | | Muggles" was a slang term for marijuana in the 1920s and 1930s, associated with the jazz scene.[citation needed] In 1928, Louis Armstrong and his orchestra recorded a song Muggles.
The word "muggles" is used in a 1946 book "Raggedy Ann in the Snow White Castle", and in "The Gammage Cup", a 1959 book by Carol Kendall. [2]
In Zap Comics No. 0 (published 1971), a reference is made to a spliff, referring to it once as a muggle.
Nancy Stouffer, wrote a 1984 book called "RAH" (later retitled "The Legend of Rah and the Muggles") which featured a race called "Muggles". She claimed that she owned the trademark for the word muggle, and sued Rowling and her publishers. In 2002, the case was dismissed. [3]
Another instance is in Roald Dahl's novel, The Twits, which featured a family of Monkeys named the Muggle-Wumps. | | | LATER USAGE OF THE WORD MUGGLE | | | | The word "muggle" was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2003, where it is said to refer to a person who is lacking a skill. The term has found its way into more common English usage by those in small specialised groups (such as geocachers) to refer to those outside the group. See, e.g., Geomuggle.
Inspired by Rowling's work, Stephen King defines muggles as "unimaginative and often unpleasant adults, who neither understand children nor care to". The term has also been adopted by groups such as Pagans, Neopagans, Wiccans etc to describe people who are not Pagans[citation needed] | | | |  | | |  | |  | | |  | | | | | |  | | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| | | | The Noble Collection has developed a range of widely sought Harry Potter collectibles – including replica Wands, Time Turners, Sculptures, replica models & Jewellry. All genuine replicas from the film series and each piece is exclusive to The Noble Collection |
| | | Exploring the Muggle World
"A Fair Deal for Wizards Who Deal Fair with Muggles."
-- Cornelius Fudge's campaign slogan (DP)
Muggles, as non-magical folk are called by wizards, are "not as stupid as we think," or so a report recently published in the Daily Prophet proclaimed (DP). Many witches and wizards find this concept hard to accept; Muggles are for the most part oblivious to the entire society of magical people which exists alongside their own.
Part of the reason for this is that Muggles simply don't believe that magic exists, which means they find non-magical reasons for the things that happen to them [1]. Another part of the reason is that the Ministry of Magic works very hard to keep the Muggles in the dark. When a Muggle sees a dragon, for example, the Ministry sends operatives called Obliviators to use Memory Charms to make the Muggle forget all about it. The Ministry hides some wizarding places with Muggle-Repelling charms; this is why Muggles don't see Hogwarts for what it is. Many witches and wizards look upon Muggles kindly, but some see Muggles as nothing but a nuisance. The Ministry enforces a Muggle Protection Act to ensure that all of the wizarding world stays securely hidden from Muggle eyes. To most witches and wizards, Muggle society is essentially unknown. When they try to act like Muggles, the results can be humorous indeed. Hogwarts offers a class called Muggle Studies where students learn about the ways that Muggles live and how they survive without magic. |
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| | | | The Harry Potter books are a series of fantasy novels by English writer J. K. Rowling. Since the release of the first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (retitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States) in 1997, the books have gained immense popularity and commercial success worldwide, spawning films, video games, and a wealth of other items.
The six books to date have collectively sold more than 300 million copies[1][2] and have been translated into more than 63 languages.[3] The first volume has been translated into Latin and even Ancient Greek,[4] making it the longest work in that language since the novels of Heliodorus of Emesa in the 3rd century AD.[5] Due to the tremendous success of the novels, Rowling has become the richest writer in literary history.[6] English language versions of the books are published by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom and internationally, and Scholastic Press in the United States, Allen & Unwin in Australia and Raincoast Books in Canada.
A large portion of the narrative takes place in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and focuses on Harry Potter's struggles against the dark wizard Lord Voldemort. At the same time, the books explore the themes of friendship, ambition, choice, prejudice, courage, growing up, love, moral responsibility, and the complexities of death, and are set against the expansive backdrop of a hidden magical world with its own complex history, diverse inhabitants, unique culture, and parallel societies.
Six of the seven planned books have been published, and the seventh will be titled Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [7], although a publishing date is not yet known. The previous (sixth) book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was issued in an English language version on 16 July 2005.The first four books have been made into very successful motion pictures by Warner Bros. The fifth, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix began filming in February 2006, and is scheduled for release on 13 July 2007. |
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