The universe of Harry Potter. Muggle is who?

It's hard to find someone who has not seen the film aboutHarry Potter, and especially those who have not heard anything about him. The multimillion-dollar budget invested in the film adaptation of the book paid off with interest. More importantly, this story was able to create a new universe, with its rules and laws. But if the fans of the book know that the Muggle is a man without magical abilities, then for less enlightened people this concept is a mystery covered in darkness.

Naturally, there is no big trouble in such ignorance, but what to do in those cases when children enthusiastic about the film ask: "And who are Muggles?"

A little bit about witchcraft in the world of Harry Potter

Not all people in Joan Rowling's book are capable ofuse magic. It is not known where the first wizards came from, but as history develops, it becomes evident that some of them dislike ordinary people - Muggles.

Perhaps the reason for this is that the Muggle isa man completely devoid of witchcraft. He can not see, feel, let alone use objects with magic. Therefore, many wizards consider them weak and helpless, unable to compete with them.

In the film itself, there are no Muggles among the main characters. And yet, in the story, the viewer sometimes encounters muggle characters. For example, the children from the shelter, where he lived Tom Riddle. But most often the family appears on the screen Dursley, which takes care of Harry after the death of his parents. And although family members know that Potter is a magician, they themselves do not possess such power.

Laws of heredity

Let the Muggle is a simple person, yet heis able to marry a magician or sorceress. Most likely, their child will be endowed with magic power, but the other wizards will consider him a half-breed. Moreover, some wizards, obsessed with the purity of blood, refer to such children with open contempt.

But much worse for those who were born in the family, where both parents are muggles. Let it happen, and this happened very rarely, but still takes place, afterwards such children are called muggle-born.

There is also a third type of children - squibs. They are born from the union of the two magicians, but they are completely devoid of magical power. For parents, this is a real grief, especially for those who keep the purity of blood from generation to generation.

Order of the Death Eaters

Let the wizards and muggles live side by side inthe world invented by Joanne Rowling, the former are much higher on the hierarchical ladder. Some wizards hate altogether ordinary people, and even more so their children, born with magic power.

Such hatred was the reasonOrder of Death Eaters, led by Volan de Mort. They believed in the dominance of purebred magicians and destroyed all who tried to prove the opposite. But at the same time, the dark ruler himself was born a half-breed, because his father is a Muggle. This affected his ideas about the future of the magical world.

So, in the Harry Potter movie there isa certain division into classes is akin to modern racism. As in reality, and in a fictitious world, the "defective" classes succumbed to frequent reprisals and humiliations, but, in the long run, the victory was won. The magical world has changed for the better, including in its attitude to the muggles.