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For most wizards, Muggles are regarded with fondness. Poor, non-magical people, how ever do they survive without magic? Some wizards are bemused or intrigued by the techniques and gadgets that Muggles use to get around their lack of magic. For a few, though, Muggles are inferior, and they and anyone descended from them should be exterminated. This long-standing belief in what is called [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Pureblood|blood purity]], apparently championed by [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Salazar Slytherin|Salazar Slytherin]] over a thousand years before our story opens, is being used by [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lord Voldemort|Lord Voldemort]] as a recruiting and control tool.

 

 

The Dark belief in the inferiority of Muggles conveniently disregards the facts that many of the strongest wizards alive, including Voldemort himself, are children of Wizard / Muggle marriages, and that the top grades in Harry's year, for all the first six years of Harry's high school career, have been won by [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Hermione Granger|Hermione Granger]], the daughter of two Muggles. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Harry Potter|Harry Potter]], another strong wizard, is tarred by the same brush, as [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lily Potter|his mother]] was a child of Muggles. This belief also ignores the fact that scions of older Wizarding families like the Longbottoms sometimes are not terribly powerful wizards.

Despite their fondness for Muggles, many wizards do feel that they are somehow diminished by their lack of magic; in fact, [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Minerva McGonagall|Professor McGonagall]] remarks, in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Philosopher's Stone/Chapter 1|the first chapter of the first book]], that the Dursleys "are the greatest load of Muggles you'll ever come across." Many Muggles who are aware of the Wizarding world, such as the Dursleys, chose to ignore the magical community, denying the evidence even if it is plainly clear that there is magic happening all around them. In the context of Professor McGonagall's remark, the comment does not directly refer to the Dursleys' denial of magic, as that has not yet been observed by Professor McGonagall. One must wonder whether McGonagall meant "the worst sort of Muggle", or "the worst sort who happen to also be Muggles."

 

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