Muggle

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Muggle
Original Name	麻鸡
Species/Race	Human 778
Occupation/Role	Non-magical population living outside wizarding society 766 905
Magical Ability	Unable to use magic; Muggle parents can nevertheless have children with magical talent 778 868

Definition and Magical Heritage

• Muggles are ordinary, non-magical people. Amelia explains the term to her parents as the name wizards use for people who do not understand magic 766 905.
• Muggle-born wizards are not Muggles. They possess magical talent despite having non-magical parents. Amosta Breen explicitly identifies both of his parents as ordinary Muggles 868.
• Muggle ancestry does not limit magical achievement. Amosta's accomplishments become a prominent rebuttal to claims that wizards from established magical families are naturally superior 887 905.
• Muggles sustain the future of wizardkind. Amosta argues that restricting magical inheritance to existing wizarding families would eventually cause magic to die out, whereas the much larger Muggle population continually produces magically gifted children 868.

Muggle Society

Technology

Amelia Bones contrasts rapid technological development in Muggle society with centuries of relative stagnation among wizards 342.

• Technology has substantially transformed daily life across Europe, the Americas, and Asia 342.
• Muggles can communicate across oceans, land on the moon, and destroy a country with a single weapon 342.
• Amosta considers a future reversal of the balance of power between Muggles and wizards a natural consequence if wizarding society continues rejecting progress 789.
• The decline of Earth's ambient magic has reduced wizardkind's upper limits; the weakest modern wizards are described as not much stronger than Muggles 976.

Influence on Wizarding Life

• Amosta's Star of the East Learning Machine uses a subject-selection screen resembling a Muggle television display 548.
• American magical society has a comparatively large proportion of Muggle-born wizards accustomed to Muggle lifestyles. St. Josiah's Hospital provides an ingredient-selling supermarket to accommodate those habits 905.
• Amelia Bones maintains an ordinary civilian identity: Muggle government records describe her as a single, middle-aged woman living alone 342.

Relations with the Wizarding World

Secrecy and Legal Protection

The Witchcraft Secrecy Act keeps the existence of magic hidden from Muggles. Amosta explains its purpose to Louise Andell after she witnesses magic during the investigation into her brother's death 776 777 778.

• Restrictions on wizards also protect people unable to defend themselves with magic; Louise recognizes that secrecy is not simply a declaration of wizarding privilege 778.
• Amosta knowingly breaks the law by revealing magic to Louise so she can help uncover her brother's killer, prioritizing her rights over strict compliance 778.
• Kingsley initially hopes to avoid involving Muggle law enforcement in the investigation of Fraser's death 760.
• Louise later accepts the possibility of having her memories erased and asks Amosta to do so if necessary 802.

Prejudice

• Historically, Muggle blood was treated as “filth.” Ravenclaw's invented claim that her child's father was a Muggle served as deliberate self-defilement in the eyes of contemporary wizarding society 659 1241.
• The Malfoy family is openly hostile toward Muggles and people of mixed magical ancestry 126.
• Such prejudice extends beyond wizards: Hain regards Louise's presence in his master's home as an insult and refuses to tolerate a Muggle criticizing Adam Vogel 787 790.
• Hostility can run in the opposite direction. The Dursleys despise magic and everything associated with it 126.

Amosta's Position

• Amosta advocates reflection, reform, and learning from Muggle progress rather than resisting social change 789.
• He rejects Grindelwald's belief that magical power could force Muggles into submission, arguing that tyranny would unite them in resistance 868.
• He condemns human experimentation on Muggles as an absolute taboo 779.

History and Major Incidents

Hogwarts and Muggle-Born Education

Hogwarts initially waived tuition for Muggle-born students unable to afford it. Reinstatement of fees after the founders' deaths reduced their attendance. A later Muggle-born headmaster established the Board of Governors to secure financial support, although its influence subsequently enabled discrimination and power struggles 1023.

Amosta describes the founders' purpose as breaking the established magical families' monopoly over education. This history concerns access for magically gifted children from Muggle families, rather than admission of non-magical people themselves 1201.

Grimmauld Place Explosion

• A powerful explosion damages the surrounding Muggle neighborhood during the pursuit of a black-robed figure believed to be Sirius Black 166.
• Tonks reassures affected Muggles while the Aurors attempt to capture the suspect, who escapes 166.

Fraser and the Magical Organization

Fraser's involvement with a University of Bologna club studying magic leads to an obsession with granting magical abilities to Muggles. He abandons his studies, becomes estranged from his family, and is expelled; Louise subsequently cannot locate either him or the disbanded club 766.

The investigation into the attack on Hermione draws Louise into the magical world. Amosta and Kingsley discover Onisto Pastore suffering from Cruciatus Curse damage and uncover evidence of Dark Wizards conducting human experiments on Muggles 776 777 779 780.

Further Civilian Victims

• Lawrence's testimony: The Breen family's Muggle servant witnesses two wizards murder a deliveryman and interfere with parcels associated with Harry, Hermione, and Ron. Amosta extracts his memories as evidence 819.
• Brooklyn café encounter: A wizard uses a Muggle man as a puppet to approach Amosta. Amosta refuses to negotiate through the victim and demands that the actual wizard appear 924.
• Soul-magic treatment: Amosta restores an unnamed Muggle to consciousness by removing dark magic and installing an incomplete personality based on Jit, a deceased orphanage janitor. Dumbledore acknowledges that the treatment relieved the victim's suffering 811.

Notable Muggles

• Louise Andell — Reporter and Fraser's sister; assists Amosta and Kingsley after discovering the existence of magic 764 765 778.
• Fraser — Pursues a method of giving Muggles magical abilities; becomes implicated in the attack on Hermione and is found dead 765 766.
• Lawrence — Breen family servant and witness to a magically committed murder 819.
• Vernon, Petunia, and Dudley Dursley — Harry's relatives, strongly opposed to magic 126.
• Mr. and Mrs. Dett — Amelia's non-magical parents; recognize Amosta as their daughter Bena's child 905 935.

Notable Quotes

“They are awe-inspiring—”
— Amosta's assessment of Muggles 342

“Second, destroying Muggles means destroying ourselves.”
— Amosta explaining why Grindelwald's ideology was fundamentally mistaken 868