Origin of word Muggles

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No: HPFGUIDX 76911

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_reader2003" 
<carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:
> Has anyone come up with a theory of where JKR got the 
world 'muggles'?
> Can't find anything on Fantastic posts or by searching the archive. 
I 
> came across a reference to Muggletonians today, which turned out to 
> be an obscure UK religious sect in the 1600s. Did not seem a very 
> obvious source ! Any ideas ?
> 
> CW

I don't know if this has ever been mentioned before, but there was a 
children's book published in the 1960's I think (I read it when I was 
10 or 11 back in the early 70s), The Gammage Cup. The main 
character's name was Muggles. I remembered the book when the lawsuit 
with the other author came up a few years back. 

Donna