Can a Muggle learn magic?

No, muggles cannot learn magic. Because in the 7th book in Snape's memories, Rowling shows a scene where Lily confronts her sister about the letter Petunia wrote to Dumbledore. Dumbledore had gently refused to accept Petunia at Hogwarts, on the grounds that it would be impossible for muggles to be able to learn magic.

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Can a Muggle be a wizard?

Muggles cannot become wizards/witches .

While studying is required to use magic effectively, someone who wasn't born with magic cannot be a wizard no matter how much they study. Muggleborns like Lily Potter or Hermione Granger are born with the ability to do magic despite nonmagical parentage.

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Can a Muggle perform magic with a wand?

A Muggle gaining one wouldn't just effectively have a stick in their hand but could produce an uncontrollable magical effect. Muggles can't necessarily perform magic, but with a wand, they could cause some to manifest in an uncontrollable manner.

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What happens if a Muggle sees magic?

The Muggle and wizarding world

Thus, most Muggles are either afraid of magic or believe it to be nothing but a childish fantasy. Wizards and witches hide their world with Muggle-Repelling Charms, and if a Muggle witnesses a magical event or sees a magical creature such as a dragon, their memories are erased.

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How do Muggle-borns become magic?

As for muggle-borns, he suggests that they are achieved through de novo mutation. In other words, the muggle born possess a new mutation in their “magic” gene which their parents did not, causing the gene to give them magical powers.

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Is Hermione the 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.

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Is Harry Potter A Pureblood or a Mudblood?

Harry James Potter holds half-blood status in Rowling's imagined wizarding world because his mother is Muggle-born and his father is pure-blood.

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What happens if a Muggle touches a wand?

Originally Answered: What would happen if a muggle tried to cast a spell with a wand? It wouldn't work. Wands are means to channel the magic that is inherent to a person, or more specifically a witch or a wizard. Muggles, have no inherent magic and therefore can't channel it, in any possible way.

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Who would win in a war wizards or Muggles?

TL;DR: The muggles would win, unless the wizards maintain the element of surprise, but most individual wizards who want to escape the muggles will be able to. First off, we should consider whether the author has anything to say about this debate, but in fact J. K. Rowling has said very little.

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Can 2 wizards have a Muggle child?

Yes, sometimes wizarding couples give birth to a child that lacks any magical ability. Such a child is called a “Squib”. The two most notorious Squibs in the series are Argus Filch, the Hogwarts caretaker, and Arabella Figg, Harry's neighbour who loves cats.

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What happens if a Muggle marries a wizard?

As a wizard or witch married to a Muggle, you can live and work with magic while enjoying the many Muggle cultural perks. You get the best of both worlds, as you'd have eckeltricity and fellytones to make your spouse happy, and you'd still get to send off owls and use Floo Powder.

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Can a Muggle see Hogwarts?

Wizarding society is kept hidden from Muggle society through a vast and complex range of concealment charms. If a Muggle were to look at Hogwarts, for example, all they would see is a ruin with signs telling them to keep out.

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How are Muggles allowed in Diagon Alley?

Diagon Alley is a high street located in London. It is accessible to the wizarding world, to which it is something of an economic hub, but hidden from Muggles (non-magical people). However, Muggles are allowed access to it if they need to accompany their Muggle-born magical children.

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How do Mudbloods get powers?

Mudbloods: Wizards can be born from non-magical parents because these mutations can pop up out of nowhere. There's a better chance of you being magical if your parents are on the high side of the normal range. Squibs: Would be the offspring that are born to magical parents but don't inherit the dominant wizarding gene.

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What is a female wizard called in Harry Potter?

An individual male human with magical ability, is known as a wizard (plural: wizards), and an individual female human with magical ability is known as a witch (plural: witches), though "wizard" is sometimes used as a gender-neutral singular noun like "man".

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Was Voldemort born Muggle?

Tom Riddle has a witch mother and a Muggle father, making him a half-blood wizard. But as Lord Voldemort, his ideology is centered around the superiority of “pure-blood” wizards, and his desire to rid the world of Muggle-born wizards and half-bloods like himself.

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Do Muggle leaders know about wizards?

Each new Muggle Prime Minister receives a visit from the Minister for Magic, who informs them of the existence of the wizarding world. The Minister explains that they will contact the Prime Minister only in circumstances in which the events of the wizarding world may affect Muggles.

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Would Gandalf or Dumbledore win?

In his prime, Dumbledore truly had no equal who could best him in a one-on-one wizarding duel. Even though he might seem like an old man, his wizarding power is on a completely different level. Gandalf is probably the most powerful opponent he'd ever face, but Dumbledore wouldn't go down without a fight.

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Who is the strongest character in the wizarding world?

Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort ever feared and the only one who could have defeated him in a duel. Albus Dumbledore is the most powerful wizard in the Harry Potter.

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Why can Death Eaters fly without broom?

Also, in every film with the Dark Mark in the sky, Death Eaters are shown Apparating inside of its mouth in smoke form. This allows them to fly out of it and appear wherever it is cast, allowing them to use it as a sort of portal.

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What did Death Eaters do to Muggles?

The Death Eaters first existed over 11 years before the events of the books, torturing and murdering Muggles (people without magical abilities), as well as anyone who opposed them, including wizards who support Muggles (such as the Weasley family).

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What is it called when both parents are Muggles?

Witches and wizards with non-magical parents are called Muggle-borns. There have also been some children known to have been born to one magical and one non-magical parent. People of this mixed parentage are called half-bloods; magical people with any Muggle ancestry on the one side or the other are half-bloods as well.

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Is Luna Lovegood a pure-blood?

Luna Lovegood is a Pureblood witch, who was sorted into Gryffindor House during Harry Potter's second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry.

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Is Lord Voldemort pure-blood?

It is perhaps interesting that Voldemort himself is not a pureblood; while his mother, Merope Gaunt, was a member of one of the oldest Wizarding familes in existence, his hated father was a Muggle. In spite of this, he is still considered the heir of Salazar Slytherin.

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Is Snape a Mudblood?

Snape was born to Eileen Prince, a witch, and Tobias Snape, a Muggle, making him a half-blood (hence the name, "Half-Blood Prince"). This is rare for a Death Eater, as remarked in the last book, though Voldemort himself also had a Muggle father.

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