Fw: [HPforGrownups] Re: Origin of word Muggles

[mom31]

No: HPFGUIDX 77160






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  > > Has anyone come up with a theory of where JKR got the 
  > world 'muggles'?



  This is from Quick Quotes     http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/quickquotes/articles/1999/0999-slj-feldman.htm?layout=articleArchive&articleId=CA153024&display=searchResults&stt=001&publication=slj

  "   Most of the words came in my head full-formed and I have to kind of trace them back. And I can only try to speculate to where they came from. I think that I derived "Muggle" [theword wizards use to describe humans without magical powers] from the word "mug," which in Britain means a stupid person or a fellow who's easy to dupe.   "

  Joj

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