Muggle

Biodata

Background

• Muggles and wizards traditionally live in separate worlds under the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy. Wizards who expose magic to Muggles may create work for Obliviators or face penalties 716 1187.
• Muggle-born witches and wizards have non-magical families. Hermione Granger, whose parents are dentists, challenges pure-blood assumptions about Muggle professions and ancestry 761 1270.
• Some pure-blood wizards look down on Muggles and Muggle-borns, though the Harris family's projects bring more Muggle products and knowledge into wizarding life 731 831 1191.

Contact with the Magical World

• Technology and transport — Umbrella develops enchanted Muggle objects. Arthur Weasley's factory researches Wizarding Cars and a Magic Computer; cars give wizards a way to travel through Muggle areas without conspicuous magical transport 716 1187 1188.
• Medicine — St. Mungo's Healers study Muggle methods and tools. Allen also proposes working with the Muggle government to provide magically aided medicine without revealing its source to patients 1188 1187.
• Sports and trade — Allen proposes introducing Muggle sports, including basketball and rugby, to wizards. Umbrella also plans to adapt existing Muggle products and employ wizards in Muggle construction and transport 1187 1159.
• Public attitudes — Harris Television's programs prompt some wizards to reconsider their views of Muggles, while some pure-blood families become concerned about Muggle military power 998.

Gaining Magical Ability

Allen proposes combining a wizard-to-Muggle bone marrow transplant with potions. He theorizes that, after the recipient's blood-producing tissue has changed, the Muggle would count as a Squib and could then take Magic Boosting Potion 1271.

• Allen agrees to attempt the procedure on Nancy using her magical daughter Patricia's bone marrow 1290.
• Mr. Clearwater is later described as having changed from Muggle to wizard. People who underwent such a change are nevertheless said to have extremely weak spellcasting ability 1442.

Threats and Protection

• Death Eaters capture and kill Muggles; victims are also used to create Inferi and to irrigate a Death Eater's crop with blood 799 862 1008 1010.
• Allen and his allies discuss warning Muggle relatives when Voldemort plans attacks on Muggle society 914.
• Magical secrecy does not always require erasing a Muggle's memory: after an Auror learns that a Muggle woman's daughter is a witch, he says she need not be Obliviated 847.