mudblood

Harry soon finds himself entangled in a dark plot against his 'Mudblood' classmates, as students keep turning up petrified!

Draco Malfoy was rude to Hermoine when he called her a mudblood.

A portrait of Sirius's mother calls him a mudblood - the pejorative term for a non-pure-blood wizard - every time he passes it.

Hermione decided to reclaim and use the term "Mudblood" with pride instead of shame in an effort to defuse its value as a slur.

When Malfoy calls her a "filthy little mudblood", he's referring to the fact that her parents are non-wizards, or muggles.

Pure-blood supremacists refer to Muggle-borns with the offensive derogatory term Mudblood.

She accepts her status as a Muggle-born witch, and states in Deathly Hallows that she is "a Mudblood and proud of it".

When Hermione Granger comments that the Gryffindor players made the team through talent and not bribery, Draco responds by calling her a Mudblood.

In "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," Ron becomes furious when Draco Malfoy calls Hermione a mudblood.

Her heroes are the hybrids, the misfits, all bearing scars of loss and love: the half-giant Hagrid, the mudblood Hermione, the poverty-stricken Ron, the orphaned Harry.

He sees the memory of Snape being bullied by James and Sirius, and of calling Harry's mother, Lily Evans, a Mudblood (a highly offensive term).

According to Rowling, to characters for whom wizarding blood purity matters, Lily would be considered "as loathsome as a Muggle", and derogatively referred to as a "Mudblood".

Rhyming syllables make up Mudblood, an insult for any wizard born of Muggle parents, while reversed syllables help turn "warthog" into Harry's wizard school of Hogwarts.

Meanwhile, Draco Malfoy has become more nasty to Harry and his friends, especially Hermione, whom Malfoy and his Slytherin friends start calling "Mudblood".

He also insults Hermione Granger's Muggle-born status by referring to her as a "Mudblood", a term that, as stated by Hagrid, is one not used in civilised conversations.

During a morning confrontation between the Gryffindor and Slytherin Quidditch teams, a brawl nearly ensues after Draco Malfoy calls her a '"Mudblood,"' an insulting epithet for Muggle-born wizards.

The sixth and seventh instalments could be called Harry Potter And The Mudblood Revolt and Harry Potter And The Quest Of The Centaur.

Their relationship ends in their fifth year at Hogwarts, when Snape, in his anger and humiliation at being jinxed by James and Sirius, unthinkingly calls Lily a "Mudblood" after she defended him.

When Malfoy says that he does not "want a Mudblood sliming it up" in reference to Hermione, Harry and Draco simultaneously fire off spells which ricochet and hit Goyle and Hermione instead.

Exceptions exist: those unable to do magic who are born to magical parents are known as squibs, whereas a witch or wizard born to muggle parents is known as a muggle-born, or by the derogatory term "mudblood".

They remained friends for the next few years until they were driven apart by Snape's interest in the Dark Arts; the friendship finally ended following the bullying episode that Harry had briefly seen in the fifth book, in which Snape calls Lily "Mudblood".

It differs from the term Squib, which refers to a person with one or more magical parents yet without any magical ability, and from the term Muggle-born (or the derogatory and offensive mudblood), which refers to a person with magical abilities but without magical parents.