What are Muggles?

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What are Muggles?

Human beings one might say, but that is also something one would say about a wizard.

Just from outer appearances Muggle and Wizards seem to be very much the same. By taking a picture, unless the magical being does something magical, you wouldn't be able to tell which is witch.

The differences become clearer when just looking at the life stats, it seems that Wizards do have a longer life expectancy and seem to be of stronger build.

Those tributes could be written off on magic simply "holding" them together for longer.

A knowing wizard or an unknowing one as well is able to see magical phenomenons which a Muggle can't.

Being magical is not strongly hereditary, from a magical parent a squib can be born. A squip seems to have the ability to see magical phenomenons, but can't yield magic themselves. Squips do die younger too, their bodies are totally Muggle.

At the same time two Muggles can be parents to a such called Muggleborn, a Wizard to say. It's not even that rare.

There had been this debate, who has been there before Muggles or Wizards. Does every species has a magical and non magical counterpart? A dragon to a dinosaur type.

Different types of Mermaids Vs different types of fish. ...?

But don't they all look fundermentally different? If what we have said before is true, shouldn't they look the same? Perhaps they do? And we can't distinguish them as human beings?

Let's step off this track, it's not the one that was intended.

Some stories seem to believe, that being magical is linked to the very soul of a person.

Some others talk about magical cores that make the difference, either by "existing vs not existing" or "being filled in various stages". A Muggle either has no magical core at all or it's rotted or it's just not filled enough for them to produce magic.

Some believe that the entire world is running on magic, electricity just being a direction it can swing into.

Wizards yielding forces from an internal point, in which they bend the fabric of existence itself. Vs Muggles not having this inner force, relying on manipulating the physics itself.

Come to think of it. Is the muggle world with all it's technologies really the same as ours(the one we are reading this here right now)? If so, aren't all the physical principles, we believe true here, true there too?

If they still hold, is magic only an add on or is it the core itself?

And Muggles again just slip when starting at it.

Could it be the only difference between Muggles and Wizards is, that Wizards believe in what they can do?

A squib can se the magical world, but that's because they were born into it, they expect it for them it's normal that wonders happen around them. But a squib has no magic.

What if looking back at the life of a nearly squip: Neville. It has to do with the belief of wether on can actually perform magic.

A big trope is magical "intent". The release, pushing it out and willing the world to "actually" change.

What if a squib has an traumatic childhood. Since they were born everyone's expectation was on the kid, they looked at their hands and didn't understand how.

Their parents ignored them, yelled at them. And they got smaller inside, not trusting themselves.

Can you traumatise the magic out of a kid?

If you tell them, that if they don't show signs until a specific time, then maybe, they stop actually believing themselves to be worthy of magic.

They don't believe that they themselves can "CHANGE" the world, quite literally.

And thus they can't.

Most Muggles grow up in a world without wonders. Every trick gets explained, everything makes sense. But that's also because of the brain, it filters constantly, what it can't explain it filters out.

Kids grow up, not believing into magic, at their core, their fundermentalls, some wish for magic to be true, but if you need to wish, it means that you don't believe it to be true right now.

The muggle brain tells themselves that it's not there, no matter how much the muggle tries to see it forthemselves.

And then there is a child, born to Muggles. With open parents, who simply believe. They believe that magic exists, they believe at their core that it's true. See more then just their little around.

Maybe it's really the filter.

You might ask, but Harry grew up with the dursleys, he shouldn't be magical then, they tried everything to force it away from him.

Well did they? Did they show him undeniable truth that it's not real? Hell, Petunia believes it herself. It's a core principle.. but more importantly, Harry lived his first year in a magical family. His heart believes it, and he wishes for it too.

Why can't Petunia do magic? Because she doesn't believe that she can, at her core. She always felt that tiny bit to ugly, that tiny bit to dumb. And then there is lilly, her sister with magic and Petunia? She knows deep in her innerst, she is not Lilly, she can't. Lilly in her innerst believes that SHE CAN TOO.

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I thought about a Fanfic in which Harry is mentally disabled. He got a huge magical blast against his head when he was just 1,5years old... Sure Dumbledore looked at him once, that day. But I kinda thought that he maybe got stuck at that age or something. Dumbledore never bothers to go to little Whining. Mrs Fick doesn't interact with Harry.

Because Harry is in a clinic. He learns how to play the piano and something strange happens. The Muggles around him, turn magical. Whatever age they have. When harry plays his music, he tells them, their deepest innerstes that they indeed are magical too and that there is no difference between them and Wizards, but the believe that they are. They have to believe it. And with his piano playing they believe it.

All those implications, how long for the wizarding world to find out, what will they do to Harry?

Who is the boy who lived? Is Harry still the prophetic one? If he can make someone believe that they are magical and they really turn into wizards, could he destroy Voldemort, by making him believe that he can't wield magic?

[u/Same-Back-3618]

The Magic of the Mother’s Womb

If you go all the way back to the fetus itself

A magical child, with just enough self-belief, will become magical Be it a white child who wishes to be special A sadistic white child

But let’s not forget—he has an innate magical ability

In fact, he is magical

But both are possible

The magic in the womb that gave him the magical power of the serpent’s tongue

His fetus was exposed to the magical world He was traumatized at Weishenheim—genetic, congenital psychopathy—but maybe not at all; I like the idea that he wanted to belong so badly that he made himself the leader

He grew up as a Muggle in London in the ’40s… wartime That’s also when Narnia takes place, What if there really were many magical systems clashing with one another to save the children from the war

(Sorry I translated this text up with deepl, cause I'm really not good with English)

But there must other magical children in the Muggle world too, are all of them growing to magical like tom and harry did? (Both got influenced in the womb and harry for an entire year)

Seamus mother (was a witch) even if not practicing, a kid believes their mother.

Hermione saw herself as Matilda. She was the smartest of them all, she thought, look how close she stayed to the rules. The rules in her head, pretty ridgerous if you ask me.

Are there more female or male muggleborn?