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Can muggles 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 do Muggles find out about Hogwarts?

Hogwarts is informed by the Ministry of Magic, about possible candidates. When children are born, they are registered. Likewise in the Magical world as in the Muggle world.
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What happens if a Muggle sees magic?

If, by unfortunate means, Muggles do happen to observe the working of magic, the Ministry of Magic sends Obliviators to cast Memory Charms upon them, causing them to forget the event. Some Muggles are aware of the wizarding world.
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Can Muggles go to 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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Can Muggles see hogsmeade?

Hogsmeade is a small village in Britain where the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is situated. It is an all-wizarding village, and Muggles have no access to it.
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The Muggle Theory That Changes Everything About Harry Potter

Who was the original owner of the Sorting Hat?

Legend has it that the hat once belonged to one of the four founders, Godric Gryffindor, and that it was jointly enchanted by all four founders to ensure that students would be sorted into their eponymous houses, which would be selected according to each founder's particular preferences in students.
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Do Muggles see Dementors?

'Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace, hope and happiness out of the air around them. Even Muggles feel their presence, though they can't see them.
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Has a Muggle been in Slytherin?

Not very, and chances are that there haven't been many. But Deathly Hallows(the book) does have one of the Snatchers who capture the trio comment that “There aren't a lot of Mudblood Slytherins”, so such a thing does happen.
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Can Muggles be sorted into Slytherin?

Every wizard or witches can be sorted into any house as long as they have their values and traits and I think that blood status doesn't really matter on what house you are sorted in.
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Can you turn a Muggle into 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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Which wizards are pure-blood?

"Pure-blood" is the term applied to wizards and witches who have no Muggle blood, Muggle-borns, or half-bloods at all in their family trees. They are the rarest of the three blood statuses, with J.K. Rowling stating that ten per cent of the wizarding community is made up of pure-bloods.
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Can a Muggle use a wand?

In the Harry Potter universe, wands are an innately magical tool, capable of rebelling against their user or switching loyalties (such as the Elder Wand). A Muggle gaining one wouldn't just effectively have a stick in their hand but could produce an uncontrollable magical effect.
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Is Petunia Dursley a squib?

The fan asked the author if Aunt Petunia was a Squib (a non-magical person who is born to at least one magical parent) and Rowling replied: "Good question. No, she is not, she is not a Squib. She is a Muggle.
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Did Hermione's parents know she was a witch?

Mr and Mrs Granger – we're never told their first names – were introduced to the wizarding world in much the same way that most Muggles are: they received a letter from Hogwarts, which revealed their daughter to be a Muggle-born witch. According to Hermione, the news came as a surprise, but her parents were supportive.
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Is Harry Potter a pure-blood?

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. There are three main blood statuses; pure-blood, half-blood, and Muggle-born, which are all methods of determining a witch or wizard's magical lineage.
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How did Hermione get into Hogwarts if she's a Muggle?

Well, Hermione gets the chance to study at Hogwarts because she is a witch. She is magical. Even though she is muggle-born and has no wizarding ancestry, magic is a recessive trait carried by both of her parents or some sort of gene mutation.
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Is Albus Potter put in Slytherin?

Albus Potter goes to Hogwarts. He is Sorted into Slytherin House. And no one can seem to figure out the reason, Albus included.
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Are half-bloods allowed in Slytherin?

Blood purity

Muggle-born Slytherins existed, but were very rare, as noted insultingly by Scabior the Snatcher. There had also been definite examples of half-bloods sorted into the house, including Tom Riddle, Dolores Umbridge, and Severus Snape.
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Would Harry have been in Slytherin?

Harry Potter came very close to being sorted into Slytherin before he persuaded the Hat to sort him into Gryffindor. Yet the spectre of Slytherin haunted him for some time afterwards, becoming particularly potent in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, when he was rumoured to be the heir of Slytherin.
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Is Dumbledore Gryffindor or Slytherin?

Albus Dumbledore:

He wears half-moon spectacles and a long purple cloak. He has a scar on his left knee which is a perfect map of the London Underground. As a schoolboy, he was in Gryffindor house.
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What if two Muggle borns have a child?

It has nothing to do with genes and is just a construct of wizarding society. So the magical child of two muggle-born would be half-blood and a non-magical chld of two muggle-born a squib.
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Do house elves live forever?

According to the WOMBAT test, it is possible that house-elves have an average life expectancy of 200 years, cannot be ordered to kill themselves, breed infrequently and only with their master's permission, can override wizard enchantments, and have an allegiance to their home rather than its inhabitants.
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What is Ron's signature spell?

9 Ron Weasley: Stupefy / Wingardium Leviosa

When in combat, Ron's go-to, and probably favorite, spell would have to be Stupefy. This spell is meant to stun your opponent. It's quick, and during the fighting the Department of Ministries in Order of the Phoenix, Ron uses this one quite a bit.
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Were Dementors attracted to Harry because he was a Horcrux?

Because dementors seek to suck out the souls of their prisoners, it's plausible that they are especially drawn to Harry because — as it is revealed in the last book — he actually possesses a fragment of Lord Voldemort's soul as well.
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What happens when a Dementor kissed you?

The Dementor's Kiss is the act of a Dementor sucking out a person's soul. It was sometimes used as a sentence for criminals by the Ministry of Magic, and is considered a fate worse than death. Before Voldemort was in control of the Ministry, Dementor's Kiss was ordinarily used against those who escape from Azkaban.
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