Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Muggle-born
| Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter - Magic | |
| Muggle-born | |
|---|---|
| Type | Status |
| Features | Born of two non-wizarding parents but has magical ability |
| First Appearance | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
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[edit] Overview
A Muggle-born is a witch or wizard of non-magical (Muggle) parentage. "Muggle-born" is used as an insult by some Pure-Blood wizards, who think they are superior.
[edit] Extended Description
Famous examples of Muggle-born witches are Lily Evans and Hermione Granger. We are told that Justin Finch-Fletchley is Muggle-born as well.
In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets we are introduced to another name for those witches and wizards born of Muggle parentage - Mudbloods. This is an insult used only by purebloods who feel that Half-blood and Muggle-born witches and wizards are somehow inferior to purebloods.
[edit] Analysis
Apparently it is not necessary to have magical ancestry to be able to do magic oneself; it seems that magical ability can spontaneously appear without known magical ancestry, and sometimes in only one child of a given union. Lily Evans' sister Petunia showed no sign of magical talent, though her son Dudley may have shown a hint of ability.
Through a process possibly akin to hybrid vigor, it seems that many of the most powerful wizards have some Muggle in their recent background.
[edit] Questions
