The term Muggle is sometimes used in a pejorative manner in the books.

Rowling has said she created the word " Muggle " from " mug ", an English term for someone who is easily fooled.

*" Muggle " is a term used frequently in the Tricking community, most notably to reference non-trickers.

used the term " Muggle " in their song ' The Sea is a Good Place to Think About the Future '.

*" Muggle ", the term used by participants of Geocaching, an outdoor sporting activity, to refer to those who do not Geocache, particularly when they inadvertently or deliberately interfere with a cache.

*" Muggle ", a person who is studying intensively-based on a Singapore colloquial term for intensive studying-derived from British colloquial term to mug up.

The term " wizarding world " refers to the global wizard community that lives hidden in parallel with the Muggle world ; the different terms refer to different communities within the same area rather than separate planets or worlds.

Pure-blood is the term applied to wizards and witches who have no Muggle blood, Muggle borns, or half-bloods at all in their genealogical pedigree.

Each new Muggle Prime Minister receives a visit from the Minister for Magic, who informs him or her that the wizarding world exists.

The ride on the Hogwarts Express starts from King's Cross railway station platform 9¾, which is invisible to Muggle eyes and is reached by walking through the barrier between platforms 9 and 10.

The Muggle World is the series ' name for the world inhabited by the non-magical majority, with the wizarding world existing coextensively with it but hidden from the awareness of the non-magical " Muggles " with few exceptions ( most notably, the British Prime Minister ).

It is also centred on the separation of the wizarding world from the non-wizarding, or Muggle world.

Enchantment of Muggle artefacts is forbidden ; under-age wizards are restricted from using magic outside school ; and any deliberate revelation of magical ability to the Muggle community is punishable, although allowances are made for the use of magic in the presence of a Muggle: if the wizard or witch is acting in self-defence or in defence of another.

While the series is set in Great Britain, there is evidence that the wizarding world has locations throughout the globe, such as in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, when it describes many people at the Quidditch World Cup speaking foreign languages, the number of Irish wizards working for the Ministry and attending Hogwarts, as well as the various nationalities attending Beauxbatons and Durmstrang suggest the wizarding world's borders differ from the geopolitical divisions of the Muggle world.

These include Muggle parents of magical children, such as Hermione Granger's parents, the Muggle Prime Minister ( and his predecessors ), the Dursley family ( Harry Potter's non-magical and only living relatives ), and the non-magical spouses of some witches and wizards.

* Muggle Guide: The Muggle Guide to the Harry Potter Wizarding World

As a side-effect Harry and Hermione, who were brought up in the highly regulated Muggle world, find solutions by thinking in ways unfamiliar to wizards.

Muggle is a person without magical abilities in the Harry Potter series.

The Ministers for Magic who appear in the Harry Potter series, such as Cornelius Fudge and Rufus Scrimgeour, tend to act in a somewhat patronising manner towards the Muggle Prime Minister.

Aurors are also used to protect high-profile targets such as Harry, Hogwarts, and the Muggle Prime Minister.

Other offices include the Magical Law Enforcement Squad, which pursues day-to-day law offences ; the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office, headed by Perkins, and the job in which the reader first sees Arthur Weasley ; and the Detection and Confiscation of Counterfeit Defensive Spells and Protective Objects Office, created by Rufus Scrimgeour in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, into which Mr. Weasley is promoted, to be its head.

Little Hangleton is a fictional Muggle village notable as the place of origin of Voldemort's maternal and paternal ancestors, and as the place where he was restored to bodily form in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

The fictional universe of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series of fantasy novels comprises two separate and distinct societies: the wizarding world and the Muggle world.

On several occasions, Harry Potter is depicted as having to explain the workings of commonplace Muggle technology, such as introducing the telephone to Mr Weasley in Chamber of Secrets ; at the beginning of Prisoner of Azkaban, Ron Weasley is depicted making his first telephone call.

The longstanding separation between the wizarding and Muggle worlds in the Harry Potter universe has led many wizards to advocate keeping the two apart.

Rowling draws several parallels between the pure-blood supremacists and Nazi ideology in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ( the belief that pure-blood wizards have the right to subjugate the Muggle world and view themselves as a " master race ", laws requiring Muggle-borns to register with the Ministry of Magic, rounding up Undesirables, etc.

In July 2009 Herdman appeared at London Film and Comic Con and two weeks later, appeared at Muggle Mayhem, a Harry Potter convention in London.

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There is also some unspecified financial relationship between the two worlds, as it is possible to exchange Muggle Money into Wizard Money, as Hermione's parents are shown doing in the second book.

The mispronunciation of common Muggle terms like " telephone ", " escalator ", " plumber ", " firearms " or " policeman ", as " fellytone ", " escapator ", " pumble ", " firelegs ", and " please-men ", respectively, is a running gag in the series.

* " Muggle " is used in informal English by members of small, specialised groups, usually those that consider their activities to either be analogous to or directly involve magic ( such as within hacker culture ; and Pagans, Neopagans and Wiccans ) to refer to those outside the group.

* " Muggle " ( or geomuggle ) is used by geocachers to refer to those not involved in or aware of the sport of geocaching.

Tanya Grotter has an unusual birthmark on her nose, magical powers, an upbringing by " Lopukhoid " ( equivalent to Muggle ) relatives after her parents were killed by an evil sorceress Chuma-del-Tort ( the official translation of Voldemort name in Russian was ' Volan-de-Mort '), and goes to study at the Tibidokhs ( Тибидохс ) School for Behaviorally-Challenged Young Witches and Wizards.

In contrast to the incompetence displayed by the Ministry as a whole, the Obliviators appear to perform their task with a near-perfect success rate, keeping the Muggle world completely oblivious to the existence of the Wizarding World.

For example, Peter Pettigrew killed twelve Muggle bystanders and tore apart the street ( so as to reach the sewer pipe and escape ) by means of an immense explosion curse during his altercation with Sirius Black.

Exceptions exist: those unable to do magic who are born to magical parents are known as Squibs, whereas a witch or wizard born to Muggle parents is known as a Muggle-born, or by the pejorative " Mudblood ".

As stated by Mr. Ollivander the wandmaker, the wand will never fully work for the new user unless he or she directly disarms, stuns or kills ( even in Muggle fashion ) the previous master.

From a certain perspective, it can be seen that Magic and electricity are the equivalents of each other in their respective worlds, but electronic equipment sometimes ' goes haywire ' around Hogwarts, and Muggle devices used by wizards ( such as cameras and radios ) can be made to function using magic instead of electricity.

Pure-blood Wizards are baffled by how Muggle technology works and most have no interest in understanding it ( with occasional exceptions, such as Muggle aficionado Arthur Weasley, whose dearest dream is " to find out how an aeroplane stays up ").

By the time the books take place ( 1991 – 1998 ), some aspects of Muggle pop culture have become mirrored by the wizarding world.

* Muggle – A non-geocacher.

Since " Muggle " refers to a person who is a member of the non-magical community, Muggles are simply ordinary human beings rather than witches and wizards.

Children of this mixed parentage are called half-bloods ( strictly speaking, they are ' Literal Half-bloods '); children with recent Muggle ancestry on the one side or the other are also called half-bloods.

Whereas, in the books, " Muggle " is consistently capitalised, in other uses it is often all lower case.

* " 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 sport has been adapted under the name of " Muggle Quidditch " ( or simply " Quidditch ") to the real world.

The Death Eaters not only seek the restoration of pure-blood rule over the Wizarding community, but also the eventual subjugation of the Muggle community under Wizarding rule.

That night, after the game, a crowd of Voldemort's followers destroy the campground and torture its Muggle owners.

This stockbroker had been very rude to Mr. and Mrs. Weasley in the past, but now he and his ( Muggle ) wife had inconveniently produced a witch, they came back to the Weasleys asking for their help in introducing her to wizarding society before she starts at Hogwarts ".