Why do Muggles get a capital letter?

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 37576

Weaver wrote:  
> Okay, here we go:
> 
> Why are there 'Muggles' and 'wizards'?  Why not 'muggles' and wizards, or
>  Muggles and 'Wizards'?  Surely it makes more sense to be consistent?

>  Having offered up my oddball theories, I wait,
>  confident that the massed intelligence of HP4GU will offer me solutions.  
> ::grins:: I love this group!
> 
> --Weaver

I'm not studying English language (in fact, English is just my second 
language), so please excuse me if I say something completelly untrue 
about the English language in this post: sometimes I confuse my own 
language's rules with the English rules.

Anyway, getting to the point, I think Muggles deserves a capital letter 
in the same way "French" or "German" or "Japanese:" it's a way of 
indicating that they're from a different culture/country/whatever. 
Wizard is not (normally) capitalized because it refers to oneself, like 
"human" or "person". I'm not 100% sure, but isn't "Warlock" 
capitalized? That would indicate that Warlock is the formal name of 
wizards is, as a counter part of "Muggle".

Can't go any deeper than that but nonetheless,

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf