While children of wizarding families receive their Hogwarts acceptance letter via an owl, a Hogwarts employee will usually deliver the letter personally to Muggle-borns in order to meet with their Muggle parents and explain. Pure-blood supremacists refer to Muggle-borns with the offensive derogatory term "Mudblood".

How do Muggle borns get invited to Hogwarts?

When Muggle-born witches and wizards reached the age of eleven in the British wizarding community, their Hogwarts acceptance letters were delivered in person by a member of the staff, instead of by owl post (the usual postal system for wizards and witches).

How did Hermione go to Hogwarts if she's a Muggle?

Any child born with magical ability in the United Kingdom and Ireland gets their name written down in the Hogwarts acceptance book (both the book and quill, which are enchanted, are the ones that sense this). This is how Hermione automatically gets admission into Hogwarts, though she can, of course, refuse to attend.

How does a mudblood become a wizard?

However, if the squib were to marry a muggle, it's possible that their child or future descendants of their children will inherit magical ability from the squib's ancestry and become a witch or wizard thus, making them a Mudblood (a witch or wizard with non-magical parentage).

How can two muggles have a wizard child?

A few generations after the squib, their magical ancestors were forgotten and they became muggles. Then thousands of years later, the inactive magical gene is still being passed down the generations, some muggle randomly has active magical genes passed to them by their parents.

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Do Hermione's parents know she's a witch?

She and her husband were proud and accepting of their daughter's identity as a witch, which explained some strange things which happened around her when she was a child. They entered the magical world in 1992 to buy Hermione's school supplies, and were assisted by Arthur Weasley.

Are the Weasleys pure-blood?

The pure-blood wizards and witches featured in the Harry Potter books are almost all supremacists, while there are some of them who do not advocate ancestral superiority; the Potters, Weasleys, and Longbottoms are old pure-blood families, but no known members of these families are sympathetic to supremacist aims.

How is Hermione magic if her parents are Muggles?

Muggle-borns inherit magic from a distant ancestor; they are descended from Squibs who have married Muggles and whose families had lost the knowledge of their wizarding legacy.

Can a Muggle use a wand?

According to CBR.com, Muggles actually can use a wand — they just can't master it.

What happens if a Muggle sees magic?

If, by unfortunate means, Muggles do happen to observe the working of magic, the Ministry of Magic sends Obliviators to cast Memory Charms upon them, causing them to forget the event. Some Muggles are aware of the wizarding world.

Can a Muggle go to Azkaban?

Those who could not prove that they had magical heritage — in other words, any Muggle-born and potentially some half-bloods — were sentenced to Azkaban for having "stolen" magic. Some, however, were apparently released after being stripped of their wands and their jobs, and ended up homeless.

How did Draco know Hermione was a Muggle born?

It's not clear if Hermione directly told Draco that (as far as I recall in first year they never talked directly). I think it's more likely that he heard it from someone else. Draco knows a lot of the pureblood families so he probably was aware that Granger wasn't a wizarding surname.

Why wasn't Hermione in Ravenclaw?

It was confirmed on Pottermore that Hermione was also a bit of a Hatstall, as the Sorting Hat saw the potential for her to be both Ravenclaw and Gryffindor. In the end, Gryffindor won out, and it's possible that Hermione wanted to be seen for being brave more than for her intelligence.

Has Slytherin ever had a muggle-born?

The “welcome to Slytherin” letter which Rowling put on Pottermore a couple of years ago says that nowadays there are a lot of Slytherins with “at least” one Muggle parent. That implies that there are now some Muggle-born Slytherins but they are still fairly rare: they don't qualify as “a lot of” on their own.

Who is the most powerful muggle-born?

Hermione Granger

Hermione is the most powerful muggle-born witch of all time because of her natural ability and talent for magic, but she also deserves it.

Can a Muggle enter platform 9 3/4?

Well you see, in the books we can read that when Lily (Harry's mum) was younger and came to platform 9 & 3/4, her parents was also there; meaning that yes, muggle parents can go there too.

Has a Muggle ever learned magic?

Keep in mind that Filch was a Squib- so did have some magical blood despite not being able to use magic- so there's always a super slim hope that they have 'latent' ability or even some minor ability to be developed. A Muggle has none (or at least none they know of...) and can never learn real magic.

Why did Dumbledore give a Muggle a wand?

History. This fake wand was commissioned by Albus Dumbledore so that Jacob Kowalski could blend in with and more easily hide in plain sight of witches and wizards during the global wizarding war, as he was a No-Maj.

Can a Muggle cast a spell?

No, they won't be able to cast any spells. However, J. K. Rowling did address this point in an interview from 2006 (in a question about Muggles brewing potions): I been asked what would happen if a Muggle picked up a magic wand in my world. And the answer would probably be something accidental...

Do Hermione's parents ever remember her?

Hermione's Parents Had Their Memories Restored According To Harry Potter Canon. This tragic ending for Hermione and her parents never happened in the Harry Potter books. This is because Hermione didn't just erase her parents' memories—she rewrote them using a False Memory charm.

Is Hermione stronger than Harry?

To her credit, Hermione is capable of advanced spells beyond her years, and she knows when and where to cast them. However, fighting another wizard is different from charming or transfiguring an object, and if Harry really wanted to, he could overpower Hermione in a serious duel.

How is Hermione a heir of Slytherin?

Her real parents were Daneel and Dean Novak, Pureblooded wizards. Turns out Daneel was Tom Riddles younger sister, Daneel Riddle. Of course, the Riddles were related to Salzar Slytherin himself, and this made Hermione the living heir of Slytherin.

Who is the richest family in Harry Potter?

The Malfoy family comes from a long line of rich witches and wizards within Harry Potter, and Lucius Malfoy has copious amounts of money at his disposal. He resides in a gigantic mansion with his family, named Malfoy Manor, and owns some of Harry Potter's most powerful objects, including a golden Time-Turner.

Who was the richest wizard in Harry Potter?

This is the only known item like it in the Wizarding World, putting Flamel in a league of his own. Nicolas Flamel is easily the richest character in Harry Potter.

Is Dumbledore a pureblood?

An interesting fact of note is that despite the ideals that pure-bloods are inherently more powerful wizards, some of the most powerful or particularly adept wizards and witches in the series are in fact either half-blood (such as Lord Voldemort, Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, Severus Snape and Harry Potter) or ...