Hermione wouldn't be the same character without her muggle parents!
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The Daily Prophet is way cheaper than a Muggle newspaper.
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Muggle Library Candles The Sorting Candle, $14, available at Etsy.
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Luckily, Scamander has a "Muggle Worthy" setting on his briefcase.
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But for a muggle sport we guess it's not too bad.
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Butterbeer ice cream now exists in the muggle (and wizarding) world.
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So basically another Fyre Festival, but make it muggle as shit.
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Then she named Hedwig, and Fallon made a major Muggle mistake.
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" Grande captioned the video, "muggle in the streets wizard in da sheets.
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Granted, I am but a mere muggle, but that doesn't add up.
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The home boasts muggle-friendly amenities like en suite bathrooms and wifi.
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Are you a muggle in the streets, but a Gryffindor in the sheets?
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There have been "traces" of magical energy detected throughout the Muggle world — a.k.a.
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James Corden, though a very funny and talented host, is just a muggle.
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Rowling writes that Gormlaith heads to America, furious that Sayre married a Muggle.
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Even as an adult and, yes, a Muggle, it was all so familiar.
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There are no spells to help Muggle forecasters get it 100 percent accurate.
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But the idea of muggle-hood doesn't even come up in the first paragraph.
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That's right, Harry Potter's acceptance letter can soon be owned by a lucky muggle.
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We're sure these brushes will be a major hit with Potter's muggle fan-base.
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A Reddit thread recently broke down the exchange rate between wizard and muggle money.
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The Muggle Problem _________ Whatever caught your eye, tell us about it in the comments.
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That there is magic in our world, too, if you will — the Muggle world.
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Really though, if you don't know what the ELDER WAND is ... you poor muggle.
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He's clad in a drab, shapeless thing, because the poor Muggle can't catch a break.
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Minerva's mother was named "Isobel Ross," and later "Isobel McGonagall" after marrying the muggle Robert McGonagall.
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Unlike photos in the Muggle world, photos in the wizarding world of Harry Potter aren't static.
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These empowering experiences are desperately important for trans people to take back to the muggle world.
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Harry Potter Morphing Mugs, $19.99, at AmazonTo a muggle, this is just a black coffee mug.
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In the second book, we learn the word "mudblood," a derogatory word for those with muggle heritage.
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Hermione Granger was so damn good at magic that it's easy to forget she was Muggle-born.
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Convincing audiences that you have magical powers when you're just a plain old Muggle is pretty tricky.
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" - Iofopo Powell "The President of the United States of America is the worst kind of Muggle imaginable.
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Traces of magic are appearing across the Muggle world without warning and in a rather chaotic manner.
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How do the equivalent of Muggle-born supers know what to do with their powers once they manifest?
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The question is, how do we brighten our hopelessly drab muggle existences and proudly display our House allegiance?
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Unlike their Muggle/No-Maj counterparts, people in the magical world always knew about other continents and communities.
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Hermione, after all, was the best witch of her age despite having been born into a Muggle family.
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" It pledges to mix the muggle world and the wizarding world amid 256 pages that will place "J.
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It's a great reminder that a muggle Christmas can still be pretty magical if you just use your imagination.
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Daniel Radcliffe came to the aid of a fellow muggle after a moped mugging last week in west London.
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It's enough to make even the most hardened of wizards (and probably more than a muggle or two) swoon.
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San Francisco Bay's Alacatraz is Azkaban's "closest Muggle equivalent, being set on an island," Rowling writes, according to Time.
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But the tensions between the Wizarding and Muggle worlds feels like an area that'd be really interesting to explore.
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"Why in Merlin's saggy balls have an age restriction?" one angry adult muggle wrote on the Facebook event's page.
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Every muggle dreams of being a wizard in Hogwarts, but how many Harry Potter trivia questions can you get right?
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This new spider species discovered in India just topped the list — mainly because it exists in our real Muggle world.
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Youtuber Brizzy Voices has taking pet training out of the muggle world and into the wizarding world of Harry Potter.
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A third simply says "Muggle" across two socks, for when you're feeling like repping your boring, non-magical human life.
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Rowling writes that the word "Azkaban" is derived from a combination of the institution's Muggle equivalent and the Hebrew language.
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"Well, I'm definitely a wizard, so if you're asking if I feel like a Muggle again, I don't," he responded.
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It's your job to clean up what the game calls the Calamity, the outbreak of magic into the muggle world.
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It may be played by witches and wizards, but Quidditch teams have also formed across the real-life Muggle world.
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Accordingly, America saw an increase in No Maj (Muggle)-born witches and wizards and a more open-minded community. (U.S.A.!
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The pair obsessed over the legendary Deathly Hallows as a tool to overthrow the Muggle world and establish wizarding rule.
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Percival Dumbledore, you'll recall, went to Azkaban for attacking a group of Muggle boys in the village who had assaulted Ariana.
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By Muggle time I'm a day late but the Wizarding world is timeless and that's where our beloved will live forever.
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But like Harry Potter, she had wizardry inside, and has soared beyond her modest Muggle surroundings to achieve something quite special.
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Later, after he's befriended Hermione (after he and Ron save her from that blasted troll!) he finds out that she's muggle-born.
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Harry Potter's acceptance letter to Hogwarts is going up for auction in the Muggle world, and it's expected to fetch several Galleons.
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Grindelwald's darkness apparently didn't rub off much on Dumbledore, though per Skeeter Dumbledore did have some anti-Muggle sentiments at some point.
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Set three years before Harry's birth, the two wizards are speeding on a motorbike when Muggle police officers attempt to stop them.
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Harry Potter Wizard Chess Set, $44, at AmazonThis might be one instance where I prefer the muggle version to the wizard version.
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Before adopting Muggle plumbing methods in the eighteenth century, witches and wizards simply relieved themselves wherever they stood, and vanished the evidence.
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But hey – on the bright side, they totally love Jacob the Muggle (or, excuse us, No-Maj) as much as you do.
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Rowling might have left it out of the original pitch because in the first book, Hermione's muggle heritage isn't really a big deal.
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The Crimes of Grindelwald presented the perplexing notion that Grindelwald's platform of Muggle subservience was a measure to prevent the Second World War.
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When fanciful words that I'm familiar with by proximity — Muggle, Hufflepuff, Dumbledore — started to creep in, my eyes half-rolled off the page.
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This isn't the first muggle-made Pensieve, as a quick internet search shows, but it might just be the most romantic one yet.
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There's no evidence to suggest that Percival Dumbledore was a malicious man or a blood purist (HP Wikia says Kendra was Muggle-born).
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History of Magic may have been the most boring class at Hogwarts, but in the Muggle world, J.K. Rowling makes it all worthwhile.
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A bus that contorts and squeezes to evade muggle traffic and ensure witches and wizards get from A to B in a jiffy.
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Isn't it pretty easy to imagine Muggle families being freaked out by their magical children, causing shame and confusion as they grow up?
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Rowling retweeted the photo and included a heart emoji alongside a lightning bolt emoji — a Harry Potter reference even a muggle could understand.
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Callers have even mentioned spotting "muggle-borns," a term from the "Harry Potter" book series referring to magical characters with non-magical parents.
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In not-quite-Muggle territory, Condola Rashad headlines Manhattan Theatre Club's revival of George Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" (April 3, Samuel J. Friedman).
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Snape grew up near Lily and told her that being Muggle-born didn't make a difference in the Wizarding World, so what changed?
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The 800-word story involved Harry Potter's father, James, and Sirius Black using their broomsticks to escape from a pair of Muggle cops.
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Different terminology Isolt makes her way to America with early Muggle settlers, but we learn that they aren't called that in the new land.
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"Harry Potter: Wizards Unite" allows players to roleplay as wizards tasked with containing magic that appears all over the Muggle (normal, non-magic) world.
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There'll even be a sorting ceremony, according to Metro UK.They'll also get to play Muggle Quidditch — the classic flying broomstick game minus the flying.
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Speaking of forbidden love, what could be more scandalous than pureblood-fanatic and Slytherin 4 lyf Draco Malfoy falling for a Muggle-born Gryffindor?
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Besides, we all have that one friend who is constantly disrupting your enjoyment of the series to discuss Muggle things like science or language.
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Long story short: When Ariana was 6, she was attacked by three Muggle boys after they spotted her doing some magic she couldn't control.
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After everything, having even a feeble escape into the Wizarding World just around the corner from my muggle dwelling is still a dream come true.
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I pay a photographer 10 euros, pick out a background, and let his assistant drape a Hogwarts robe and Gryffindor scarf over my muggle dress.
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Newt doesn't even have that, which makes the prospect of another Fantastic Beasts sound less exciting and more like a threat against the Muggle world.
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So while we're all clutching our pearls and thinking about how disgusting wizards are, search the muggle past and acknowledge that we were far worse.
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" The publisher's note on the galleys said, in part: "I may be just a muggle (see inside), but I know magic when I feel it.
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I start to make my peace with the fact that I'm basically a Muggle and this has been a long run for a short slide.
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Depp's starey-eyed villain posturing comes with some pointedly callous murder, and his entire plan involves escalating the threat of all-out wizard-versus-Muggle war.
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This week, we talked to Pisani about the new film, her time in the wizard community, and the muggle bands that have inspired Swish and Flick.
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Even if a room at Hogwarts seems far more appealing, you can still live like Harry if you're the lucky muggle to snatch up this listing.
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Like their No-Maj (non-magical, Muggle) peers, the immigrant witches and wizards "had a variety of reasons for leaving their countries of origin," writes Rowling.
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LONDON — Three baby Nifflers have been born at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, and their muggle caretakers, bless them, seem to think they are actually echidnas.
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The wizarding community is as prone to hysteria and prejudice as the Muggle one, and the character of Lupin gave me a chance to examine those attitudes.
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New muggle blood is needed, and "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" could serve as an enchanting introduction to the stage across generations of families and fans.
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The onstage illusions are so elegantly executed, so delightfully clever, that for a night or two, you can forget that you're firmly stuck in the muggle world.
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The Muggle Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler), who was one of the bright spots of the first film, is essentially only used for a few lines of comic relief.
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Because if what you really want is to turn your regular old Muggle bath into something straight outta the Wizarding World, not just any bath bomb will do.
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The aprons are machine washable, so even if you make a bit of a mess in your muggle kitchen, you can get your apron clean again like magic.
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Joel Ryan/Invision/AP J.K. Rowling may be a mere muggle, but her outfit at the London premiere of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was downright magical.
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And while we already knew that the author roots many terms and aspects of her magical world in Muggle reality, we're still pretty impressed at her latest revelations.
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" Fanfiction that introduces new ideas -- for example, imagining Harry Potter as a muggle (when of course we all know he's a half-blood) is non-canon or "fanon.
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Unlike his muggle (non-wizard) peers, Harry hasn't had to struggle with student debt and housing costs (magic, was it?): he married when barely out of his teens.
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In the teaser, we see Scamander employing a "Muggle-worthy" switch on it as he enters America in order to a fool an official inquiring about his possessions.
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In his June 28 piece "The Muggle Problem," Douthat asserts that the wizarding community is a metaphor for a liberal academia while muggles represent an uneducated working class.
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To put it in words a muggle can understand: people who experience really hard stuff tend to carry the impact of it around with them for a long time.
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He's the apple of his parents' eye, a bit of a goon, and the most Muggle-y of Muggles, though he ultimately redeems himself by making amends with Harry.
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They will be perfect for the train or "whatever Muggle transport you prefer," J.K. Rowling's Pottermore website predicts, announcing the coming publication of four new Harry Potter e-books.
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Even though wizards eschew modern technology, a good Hufflepuff would still have this sleek kit of useful tech bits and bobs to make sure no muggle gets left behind.
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Of course, now I know that Muggle-born children don't receive owls — a teacher from Hogwarts arrives at their door with the letter, to explain everything to their parents.
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I was born a muggle and was therefore never able to attend Hogwarts as an ambitious Slytherin, buy Chocolate Frogs at Honeydukes, or enjoy a meal at the Leaky Cauldron.
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Whether you're looking to stock up on entirely new fantastical merchandise or you're simply shopping around for some repurposing inspiration, the finds ahead have all your Muggle home needs handled.
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After learning the difference between wizard rock and "muggle music" and sitting in on discussions pointing out the lack of sex ed at Hogwarts, I'm ready to make my exit.
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And who would Dan Fogler (who plays Jacob Kowalski, a muggle unwittingly thrust into the world of magic) and Ezra Miller (who plays Credence Barebone) want to switch characters with?
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It turns out to be a closet under the stairs instead, not unlike the small bedroom that Harry Potter was forced to sleep in by his muggle (non-magical) relatives.
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Harry Potter's magical elements mixing in with the Muggle world is already a theme in the books and movies, so we can expect to see that reappear now in AR form.
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Muggle Library Candles, a company that makes Harry Potter-themed scents and candles on Etsy, recently dropped a brand-new product that's the the candle equivalent of a personalized sorting ceremony.
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Dalloway's worries as she shops for flowers or you witness Harry Potter struggle to control his powers in front of his neglectful muggle family, you contrast that experience with your own.
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For starters, mixed wizard/muggle Potter advocates for oppressed house elves and opposes Voldemort's quest for blood purity while Trump has proposed banning Muslims and ostracized even more groups of people.
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LONDON — There's plenty of Harry Potter fan fiction out there, but we're willing to bet there's only one diary-themed blog from the perspective of a Hogwarts-based "muggle IT" worker.
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Should any such creature cause harm to, or draw the notice of, the Muggle community, that nation's wizarding governing body will be subject to discipline by the International Confederation of Wizards.
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But, his experience of being a Muggle-born character in a magical world might have given him the experience of being in a minority group, which he wouldn't otherwise have had.
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Created by a real-life muggle named Jonathan Dart, Setup Wizard is a fan fiction diary chronicling adventures of a non-magical man tasked with handling all of Hogwarts tech issues.
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Wild though it would be, I think I'd actually pay money for a scene of forlorn Jacob, drunk in a Muggle pub, just tipsy enough to talk about his magically manipulative ex.
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This was quickly ruled out, however, because according to McGonagall's Pottermore biography, written by Rowling herself, her grandmother on her father's side — who carried the McGonagall name — would have been a muggle.
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Though it quickly becomes clear it's a good thing he's stuck to muggle endeavors, as he attempts to master a simple spell and gets told, "You're uncoachable," by a ruthless young Gryffindor.
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The implications of a Muggle-born holding the highest recognized office also gives us a glimpse at the state of the future wizarding world, almost 20 years after Voldemort was defeated. 3.
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While passing through, he runs into a No-Maj (American for muggle, or non-magic person), winds up accidentally switching suitcases with him and subsequently a few of Newt's magical creatures escape.
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Although they look very different on the outside, Watson said Dumezweni captured Hermione's heart and spirit, and they shared a sisterhood through the studious, Muggle-born witch they both helped bring to life.
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Producer David Heyman described the new film's core characters as outsiders: sisters Tina (Katherine Waterson) and Queenie (Sudol), magizoologist Newt (Eddie Redmayne) and Muggle/No-Maj Jacob, a veteran and aspiring bakery owner.
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We've put together a comprehensive list of everything a Muggle (the name for a non-magical human) needs to know about Harry Potter and the Cursed Child before its release this weekend. 1.
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They bear a striking resemblance to ICE, considering they roamed the country, trying to catch Muggle-borns because they were deemed illegal by Voldemort and his administration ... I mean the Ministry of Magic.
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As the title suggests, the film will cover a key part of Harry Potter lore, showing a rising discontent amongst wizards, who are tired of hiding from the rest of the Muggle world.
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Mentions of everyone's favorite wizarding school of witchcraft and wizardry abound throughout the film with the first reference being a Hufflepuff scarf found in Newt's case after he flips it to "Muggle Worthy" setting.
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Fans of the J.K Rowling books will remember Number 4 Privet Drive as the muggle home where the young wizard spent most of his childhood with his Aunt Petunia, Uncle Vernon and Cousin Dudley.
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"We are asking people to imagine a world in which Hermione couldn't go to Hogwarts simply because of her gender," Jackson Bird, HPA's director of wizard-muggle relations, says of the campaign's name choice.
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"Real food" might mean something quite different to a Complete Foodist compared to those accustomed to what some Soylent enthusiasts have called "muggle food," but these recipes may build a bridge between the two.
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The trailer gives us minimal Depp (good), lots of Dumbledore (v good), and even a dash of charming No-Maj (Muggle) Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler), as wide-eyed as ever by the magical world.
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The one constant of language, especially language of the street, is change: a hooker in Shakespeare's day was a thief, and a muggle, pre-Harry Potter, was jazz-musician slang for a marijuana cigarette.
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Hiding behind these muggle eyes is an actress known for her wizardry ... grab your wands and see if you can find a spell that'll help you uncover the lovely lady in this warped photo!
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So, the takeaway for non-sports fanatics that nonetheless lament their muggle existence and strive to immerse themselves in any and all activities with ties to the superior realm of the wizarding world whenever possible?
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For fans attempting to place the Harry Potter universe within the larger context of the geopolitical tensions of our own Muggle world during the last two decades, it seems almost bafflingly at odds with reality.
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He's prodded by Dumbledore to pursue the fugitive, leading him, his muggle pal Jacob (Dan Fogler) and the Ministry of Magic's Tina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston) on a hell-bent chase across Paris in the 1920s.
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And, the reviewer at Muggle Net fittingly tested out a Harry Potter-themed Tervis Tumbler and noted that she could not tell when it was holding a piping-hot beverage thanks to the double insulation.
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Most of the cast from the previous film also seems to be returning, including Katherine Waterston as Newt's girlfriend Tina and Alison Sudol as her sister Queenie, along with Newt's Muggle sidekick Jacob (Dan Fogler).
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Though Katheryn Burnett, a muggle from the United Kingdom, will most likely never get to hear a chorus of ghosts caroling, that didn't stop her from using the wizarding world as inspiration for her Christmas tree.
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Throughout the seven books, all that talk about galleons, sickles and knuts was enough to make your head spin — especially since it was never really clear how Wizard money exchanges to our boring, old Muggle money.
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It was invigorating to view the events through someone's eyes besides Harry's; J.K. Rowling's books occasionally depart to the omniscient narrator, or the points of view of bystanders like Frank Bryce and the Muggle Prime Minister.
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What's really funny about this is that we've actually seen Scamander breeze by the US Customs Service in the trailers for the film, using a setting on his suitcase to hide his creatures from Muggle authorities.
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Voldemort, the dark lord, has Muggle blood, but he isn't trying to rally an army of non-magic-wielders to seize Hogwarts' towers; he's trying to remake meritocratic — er, magical — institutions in his own dark image.
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LONDON — In case there wasn't enough Harry Potter magic in the air already with the recent release of The Cursed Child, another exciting development has come to appease those of us confined to the Muggle world.
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And if that were to change, if any old Muggle could suddenly be trained in magic, the whole thrill of Harry Potter's acceptance at Hogwarts would lose its narrative frisson, its admission-to-the-inner-circle thrill.
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The Ministry of Magic, which oversees wizards and their interactions with the magic-free (or "Muggle," or "no-maj") world, wants him to join their ranks and help them hunt down the dangerous wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp).
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But the real fun comes from Dan Fogler's character, Jacob Kowalski, a no-maj (the American word for Muggle or non-magic person) World War I vet who gets caught up in Scamander's dangerous and magic filled adventures.
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The conflict between the wizarding and Muggle / No-Maj worlds is something that Rowling never really touched in the main Harry Potter series, so it's interesting to see the shift in tone, especially in the current political climate.
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It was in Godric's Hollow that Grindelwald and Dumbledore began their plans to collect the Deathly Hallows and overthrow the Muggle world "For the Greater Good," a phrase that would become the slogan of Grindelwald and his followers.
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Gender Identity: Woman Monthly ExpensesHOA Fee: $27753 (my husband pays the mortgage for a condo we bought in 22775 — payments are about $22784) Loans: Usually $228090 (I overpaid during the cumulative three years I had a "Muggle" job.
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As a member of the SOS squad (enforcing the "Statute Of Secrecy" mandating separation between the magic and muggle worlds, you know), you're tasked with tracking down these various things wherever they appear and reporting back to the ministry.
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He pops up in the play's second scene, and it isn't long before he's joking about the muggle driving test he managed to pass and riffing perfectly off Hermione and their daughter Rose (who definitely takes after her mother).
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Hardcore Potterfans spent years wishing we lived in the wizarding world so we too could taste all those great dishes, snacks, and drinks, but luckily, Yuengling just released a new ice cream flavor that reminds us being muggle isn't all bad.
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And though most us don't face the same exact situations that characterized Harry's time at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the series' many insights can help guide us through whatever tribulations we're facing out here in the Muggle world.
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Indeed, because Ilvermorny was founded not by four powerful wizards with long ancestries but by a witch and her Muggle/No-Maj husband, Ilvermorny's system of wizardry already seems a bit more egalitarian and less focused on class differences than its British counterpart.
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Due out to U.K. and U.S. players on Friday, June 21 for Android and iOS, this augmented reality experience from the developers behind Pokémon Go aims to drop the universe of Harry Potter into the center of our Muggle lives via mobile gaming.
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In Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, from Harry Potter scribe J.K. Rowling, Depp plays the dark wizard Grindelwald — a Muggle-hating revolutionary and foe of Law's Dumbledore who wants to help pure-blood magic-makers rise to dominance over the wizard world.
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Queenie Goldstein and Jacob Kowalski: The witch and the Muggle No-Maj fell in love, against the laws of the American wizarding community, but reluctantly separated when MACUSA decreed that all non-wizards have their memories wiped of the battle against Grindelwald.
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Obviously the real Harry Potter doesn't need to bother with exercise or the gym — he can just Wingardium Leviosa the hell out of heavy objects, after all — but what would happen if he did decide to take up muggle weight-lifting as a hobby?
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From the books we know that the village ("The only entirely non-Muggle settlement in Britain") is within walking distance from the school, and sits at the foot of a mountain range in which Sirius Black finds sanctuary while on the run from the law.
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That line between the "muggle" world and the "magic" world was paper thin in the fiction, so imagining breaking through that fourth wall and experiencing that magic through AR seemed like a great way to use the technology to fulfill an awesome fan fantasy.
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This is because we know from the seventh Harry Potter book that in 1891, Dumbledore's sister Ariana was attacked by Muggle boys who permanently disabled her, after which Dumbledore's father sought revenge on the boys and was sent to Azkaban, the wizarding prison, for life.
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That's because it's well-known that Albus's mother, Kendra Dumbledore, died in 1899 in a tragic accident caused by her daughter Ariana, whose own magic had been difficult to control since the Muggle attack that left her debilitated and indirectly sent her father to prison.
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" Comparing herself to "a muggle" from popular book and movie franchise Harry Potter, Willis admitted, "for most of my adult life I thought that if I could be who everyone else wanted me to be that I would be accepted and happy, but I never was.
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In the new clip "Grindelwald's Vision," Potter author and Crimes writer JK Rowling and the film's actors Johnny Depp, Ezra Miller, Eddie Redmayne and Katherine Waterson open up about what drives the dark wizard and his desire to have total rule over the muggle (non-magic) world.
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Also back for the sequel is Katherine Waterston as Newt's love interest Porpetina Goldstein, Dan Fogler as Newt's good-natured non-magical Muggle (technically No-Maj) friend Jacob Kowalski, and Ezra Miller as Credence Barebone, who seems to have survived his apparent death in the previous movie.
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Fortunately, Jones (whose resume includes the "Star Wars" prequel "Rogue One" and playing Ruth Bader Ginsburg) and Redmayne are good company, even if the latter's bookish, awkward genius feels a little too much like a Muggle version of his New Scamander character from the "Fantastic Beasts" movies.
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Among other central figures, Theseus' fiancée Leta Lestrange (Zoë Kravitz) is looking for her own family truths, powerful mind-reader Queenie Goldstein (Alison Sudol) wants the freedom to marry her Muggle boyfriend Jacob (Dan Fogler), and Queenie's sister Porpentina (Katherine Waterston) is still trying to hunt Credence down.
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The proper treatment of Muggles, meanwhile, is the great controversy within the wizarding world, where the good guys want them protected, left alone and sometimes studied, while the bad guys want to see them subjugated or enslaved (and all the Muggle-born "mudbloods" purged from the wizarding ranks).
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What Grindelwald's actual politics are beyond wanting Muggle genocide is anyone's guess, but given that this film is arriving during one of the most politically confusing and polarized eras in recent history, it's mildly worrying that Grindelwald's actual message is as vague and "insert-your-own-ideology" as possible.
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We rounded up something fun for every type of muggle and wizard, from the ones who just love the movies (aka the muggles) to the die-hards who can tell you the answer to what you'd get if you added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood (the wizards).
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Through a series of mix-ups, he's aided in part by a local Muggle (Dan Fogler), who quickly becomes his wide-eyed, comic-relief sidekick, despite a law among the American wizardry that any "No-Maj" must instantly have his or her memory wiped (or "obliviated") if exposed to the wizardly world.
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Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident…were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical briefcase, and the escape of some of Newt's fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds.
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But that's not stopping him from trying to get licensed to do magic in the U.S. In a sketch on The Late Late Show, Corden showed up to a magic licensing test in his best muggle magician outfit, which failed to impress the strict Ministry of Magic official played by Fantastic Beasts star Eddie Redmayne.
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I can attest, this new Pottermore feature certainly is cool, especially since I'm always down to learn new fun facts about the beloved fictional world — for instance, did you know that the Hogwarts Express was created because Ottaline Gambol, who was Minister of Magic from 1827 to 1835, was interested in the Muggle innovation?
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When Harry Potter and the Cursed Child hit the London stage in 2016, many fans were well aware that racebent Hermione--a creation of black girl nerds who duly noted that the brainy beloved character's frizzy hair and marginalized status as a muggle spoke to them--had been a popular subject of fanart on sites like Tumblr for years.
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The film also introduces several new characters (such as Newt's ex-love Leta Lestrange, played by Zoë Kravitz) along with bringing back familiar faces from 2016's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them — like Newt's American love interest Tina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston), her sister Queenie (Alison Sudol), and Queenie's muggle romantic interest Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler).
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Here is how the review begins: So, here it is at last: The final confrontation between Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, the Chosen One, the "symbol of hope" for both the Wizard and Muggle worlds, and Lord Voldemort, He Who Must Not Be Named, the nefarious leader of the Death Eaters and would-be ruler of all.
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From there, she befriended a powerful magical creature called the Pukwudgie and went on to marry a Muggle-born man; American wizards would later call him a No-Maj, which is how Muggles are now known in the US. Together with their adopted children (you can read more about them in Rowling's fable), Isolt and her husband founded Ilvermorny, teaching students out of their small cottage.
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And if all else fails, if you are not below sexual favours, neither am I. If you can't execute these four easy steps flawlessly, you are probably incompetent and deserve to be a muggle in GA. But listen guys, don't feel discouraged if you don't immediately get escorted into AA like I usually do when I pull up, after all I am the finesse goddess and I wouldn't expect anyone to live up to my legendaryness.
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Here's the real living room: But it looked much different in the "Chamber of Secrets" set: The newly renovated kitchen has modern appliances and sleek counter tops: But the Dursley's kitchen was styled in a more "comfy-country" '90s aesthetic: One of the bedrooms in the real home looks like a cheerful and sunny child's room: This is significantly less drab than Harry's bedroom built on set: The Dursley's would be impressed with the well-kept lawn in the backyard of the house: Pristine lawns were a defining feature of the fictional Privet Drive: The real three bedroom home will surely be occupied by a Muggle family in short time — let's just hope they're a kinder lot than the Dursleys.
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