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Let's just hope she gets sent to Azkaban for crimes against us muggle-born Americans.
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When they are being rude to people it's about being full-blood or muggle-born, they don't insult people on race or sexuality, (which is great, of course! but interesting).
Sex and Harry Potter lili 2009
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Hermione Granger is a muggle-born witch (WW, with WM parents) ....
Stromata Blog: 2007
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Hermione Granger is a muggle-born witch (WW, with WM parents) ....
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At age 11 and having never been to Hogwarts, what are the chances he's ever even met a muggle-born?
Willa Rubin: Six Speculations About the Seventh Harry Potter 2008
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Yes, it appears that Hermione Granger, muggle-born Hogwarts honours student and heretofor shrinking violet has been quietly infecting much of the staff and student body with a wide and deadly range of bacillii, and it is up to the students at Bizzaro Hogwarts to stop her and cure the pallid, sweaty victims of her horrid crimes.
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The antipathy towards muggles has a very real and understandable core that has been embellished to include even muggle-born wizards.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Nonideological Evil in the Harry Potter Series: 2007
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Harry WW with WW parents is not considered a pure-blood, as his mother was muggle-born.
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One explanation for squibs and muggle-born wizards/witches would be that the alleles for magic are fairly common in the population, but that they are expressed only when they are triggered by some external factor.
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Wizards or witches can be of any race, and may be the offspring of a wizard and a witch, the offspring of two muggles (‘muggle-born’), or of mixed ancestry (‘half-blood’).
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