MA technology]] Overview of wizardkind Wizardkind were humans that were born with the ability to perform magic. An individual male human with magical ability was known as a wizard (plural: wizards), and an individual female human with magical ability was known as a witch (plural: witches), though "wizard" was sometimes used as a gender-neutral singular noun like "man" is to refer to humans. There were three statuses of wizardkind: pure-blood, half-blood and Muggle-borns, and they were relative to half-breeds, Squibs, Underbeings and non-magic people.
It was said that a lot of the greatest wizards did not have an ounce of logic, suggesting reliance of powerful magic could lead them to neglecting other aspects of their mind.
In childhood, wizards and witches may have exhibited random bursts of magic, called accidental magic, which were honed and controlled as they progress to maturity.
To perform controlled magic, almost all wizards/witches needed to use a wand, although the advanced skill of wandless magic may have been mastered in later life. A few highly advanced wizards could do controlled magical feats without a wand, such as Albus Dumbledore, who demonstrated the ability at the close of Harry Potter's first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and Lord Voldemort, who once demonstrated this ability during the Battle of the Seven Potters in 1997.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 
: pure-blood; Harry Potter: half-blood; Hermione Granger: Muggle-born]] Magical ability was an inherited trait passed genetically from one's ancestry. Witches and wizards were classified by blood status according to their relation to these ancestors, which were usually their parents.
Pure-bloods were born of two wizarding parents and at the very least, four wizarding grandparents. Pure-blood supremacists believed that a good wizarding family tree should have no Muggle ancestors; however, every family tree had at least one Muggle ancestor by the 1990s. Half-bloods were wizards who had known Muggle or Muggle-bornparents or grandparents. Muggle-born wizards and witches were distantly descended from a Squib who had married into a Muggle family. Magical genes resurfaced many years later in a Muggle-born descendant when that branch of the wizarding family had usually lost all traces of its wizarding legacy.
Barry Wee Willie Winkle celebrates his 755th birthday in style tonight by throwing a huge party for all the wizards and witches he has ever known. 30 million are expected to attend tonight. The physiology of wizards was subtly different from that of non-wizards. As such, wizards would react differently to the effects of contact with a magical creature, such as being attacked by a Murtlap. Wizards also by nature could not be fooled by certain types of magic or magical barriers. It was, for example, possible to hide certain magic from Muggles via Muggle-Repelling Charms, which naturally would have no effect on wizards.
Wizards had the power to cure 'mundane' illnesses and injuries, and contact with non-magical creatures that Muggles could not. However, they could struggle to repair any damage caused by magical means such as the Memory Charm and Unforgivable Curses.
Despite their science and living conditions being almost medieval, wizards were, ironically, probably healthier than Muggles, presumably due to their inherent magic protecting them from most mundane illnesses.
lived to be over 300]] Wizard life expectancy in Britain reached an average 137¾ years in the mid-1990s, according to the Ministry of Divine Health, although the oldest wizard on record reached the age of 755 in late 1991; wizards in general have a much longer life expectancy than Muggles, usually living two or three times as long as their non magical counterparts, some living even longer than that depending on circumstances.
In addition, seeing as James Potter's parents had him "late in life,” witches likely have significantly longer childbearing years than Muggle women.
's unusual eye and hair colour]] Most wizards looked no different from Muggles, although some wizards bear unusual physical characteristics; while silvery-blonde hair is very rare among Muggles, many wizards had it, to name a few Chiara Lobosca, Winifred Warrington, and Ivy Warrington.
Ivy also had pure purple eyes that Muggles could not have. Rolanda Hooch, on the other hand, had yellow eyes. These features are consistent with usage of magic, or simply having magic, being shown to affect bodily appearance, especially the eyes (as, for instance, Tom Riddle's eyes turned bright red after his constant use of the Dark Arts).
In other cases, this may simply have been a cosmetic application of self-transfiguration, charm work or potion usage to alter the colour of one's eyes or hair to reflect the wizard's personal preferences.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Some wizards exhibited special inborn (or acquired) attributes which marked them as unique amongst their kind. They are listed as follows:
These often hereditary traits marked subdivisions within wizardkind.
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| ==Metamorphmagi== |  Other wizards may have had the ability to change only their physical appearance rather than their bodily form. This type of wizard was termed a Metamorphmagus. Such a wizard could change the shape of their noses, hair colour, and other physical attributes. Nymphadora Tonks and Teddy Lupin were known Metamorphmagi. | ||
| rowspan="2" | ==Parselmouths (and other animal communication)== |  Some wizards and witches had the ability to talk to animals. For instance, a Parselmouth could speak to snakes. This ability was extremely rare. Salazar Slytherin was an infamous Parselmouth, and his descendants, such as Lord Voldemort, inherited this trait. Harry Potter also acquired this ability when part of Voldemort's soul bonded with him the night he tried to kill Harry. | |
| Rubeus Hagrid has demonstrated an uncanny ability to communicate and bond with all kinds of animals, though this may have not been a true magical trait, but merely a gift, a mere knack at interpreting animal behaviour, that some Muggles showed. Animagi had also demonstrated being able to subtly influence animals while assuming their animal forms. | |||
| ==Maledictuses== |  Some witches were the carriers of a blood curse, one that would eventually lead them turning into a beast permanently. The curse was carried from birth and is passed down from parents to children. The beast form of a Maledictus individuals depended on the individual curse cast. | ||
| ==Part-human== |  Many humanoid magical creatures could mate with wizards and marry them, and when they did so, their children would inherit magical ability from their wizarding parent, as well as physical traits of the specific magical creature, for examples: small stature from a goblin parent, beauty and grace from a Veela parent, innate helpfulness and pointed ears from an elf parent, etc. Nonhuman traits seemed to persist for at least a few generations (examples being Apolline Delacour, and her daughters Fleur, and Gabrielle, who were part-Veela, and still had Veela traits despite only having one Veela grandparent). It is unknown whether part-humans had the full abilities of their nonhuman parent, for example if a part-Veela could throw fire or transform into harpy-like creatures as their full-blooded relatives could. | ||
| ==Late-bloomers== | There existed some individuals that continued to exhibit a lack of magical power past age 11 and yet spontaneously — in desperate circumstances — managed to perform magic later on in life. However, this was rare, possibly more so than squibs. |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 
, a registered Animagus with the form of a cat|alt=]] While some wizards had the ability to turn into animals, it was not an inherent power, but rather a trained technique (however multiple wizarding families had more than one of these kinds of wizard, known as an Animagus, as it seemed to be likely for certain types of families to have people likelier to want to be Animagi). Babbitty Rabbitty was said to be an Animagus with the ability to transform into a rabbit. Minerva McGonagall was an Animagus who could turn into a cat. The first recorded Animagus was Falco Aesalon, who could turn into a falcon. 
are unregistered Animagi]] Animagi had to register themselves at the British Ministry of Magic, because Human Transfiguration could go horribly wrong. However, there were some unregistered Animagi. Examples are James Potter, who turned into a large red Stag; Sirius Black, who turned into a large black dog; Peter Pettigrew, who turned into a small grey rat; and Rita Skeeter, who could turn into a beetle. Rita Skeeter in particular took advantage of being unregistered, and used her beetle form to gather information for her articles. In the case of the first three, they turned into Animagi to assist Remus Lupin to transform into a werewolf in a place where there were no humans. Peter also turned into a rat to convince people that Sirius killed him, while masquerading as "Scabbers", Percy Weasley's and Ronald Weasley's former pet, for a long time.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 
A werewolf (also known as a lycanthrope) was a creature who normally resembled human being but, upon the complete rising of the full moon, became an uncontrollable, fearsome and deadly wolf. This condition was caused by infection with lycanthropy, also known as werewolfry. There were various differences between werewolves' wolf form and actual wolves, making it easier to detect one.
A werewolf could not choose whether or not to transform and would no longer remember who they were once transformed and were very aggressive; multiple werewolves were known to kill their best friends or loved ones while in wolf form if they were given the chance. Despite this, they were able to recall everything they had experienced throughout their transformation upon reverting to their human form.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 
Legilimens were wizards who could perform Legilimency. These wizards could tune into other people's minds, but had difficulty reading the minds of those people who could perform Occlumency. The act of Legilimens was referred to as "mind-reading" in the Muggle world. It is also possible to be born as a Legilimens, as Queenie Goldstein was noted to be a natural at the skill.
The most advanced Legilimens could perform Legilimency nonverbally and wandlessly, but less talented practitioners must use the incantation Legilimens to enter their victim's mind. If a target was not skilled in Occlumency, a Legilimens would be able to detect if the person was lying.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Some wizards had the ability to protect their minds from others who could perform Legilimency. This ability was called Occlumency. Severus Snape tried teaching Occlumency to Harry Potter during Harry's fifth year in Hogwarts. The most basic form of Occlumency, judging from Severus Snape's early lessons on the subject to Harry Potter, involved clearing one's mind — making it "blank and empty" — in order to prevent a Legilimens from perceiving one's emotions and thoughts.
More advanced Occlumency involved suppressing only the thoughts, emotions, and memories that would contradict whatever it was an Occlumens wished a Legilimens to believe. This produced a "faux" layer of mentality that could totally throw off the perspective of one who used Legilimency into thinking that the said layer being the legitimate one whilst its bona fide counterpart lay deeper within.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
An Obscurial was a witch or wizard who, due to being raised in an environment where their magic was viewed negatively, developed an Obscurus, a dark parasitic force resulting from their own magic being suppressed and tainted by negative emotion. Obscurials hardly ever lived beyond the age of ten, the only verified case being that of Credence Barebone.
Due to the extensive time spent suppressed, their magic, when unleashed as an Obscurus, could perform feats far more powerful than that of the average witch or wizard (indeed, the power of Credence's Obscurus impressed even Gellert Grindelwald), though usually only for short spans of time, as the user's death often followed soon after. At this point, the magic was in the control of the Obscurus itself, and couldn't be directed by the Obscurial's will.
Wizards and witches could be turned into vampires, as the wizard-vampire Victor Ketsueki claimed. The singer Lorcan d'Eath was a half-vampire wizard.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 
As decreed by the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy, wizards maintained a society entirely separate from Muggle society, with their own culture and traditions. Wizards populated areas all over the globe. At the 1994 Quidditch World Cup, over 100,000 wizards were in attendance. At Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, there were several hundred students in residence at any given time. About 30 million wizards attended Barry Winkle's 755th birthday party in 1991.
Wizards might live together in communities such as Godric's Hollow or Hogsmeade. Other wizards lived in solitary locations such as Spinner's End or 12 Grimmauld Place. Most wizards maintained little if no contact with Muggle society. They were somewhat ignorant to the Muggle world but in a different manner than Muggles as of the Wizarding World.
While Muggles were completely unaware of wizards, wizards appeared to be ignorant of certain aspects of the Muggle world, such as electricity and other modern technologies that became redundant and, at times, nonsensical when one was able to use magic. For wizards, only magical talent or (in the minds of some prejudiced people) lineage was important. There appeared to be no gender prejudice in the wizarding world, with men and women equally represented in important positions. Discrimination and prejudice based on sexual orientation also tended to be less common. Wizarding prejudices were instead concerned with a person's blood status and magical prowess. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was considered a "safe place" for LGBTQ+ individuals. There also seems to be little racial prejudice, with at least one 17th century wizard founding the largest hospital in Britain and a witch presiding over the Magical Congress of United States in the early 20th century being black. This may be due to the fact that various magical means of transport, such as brooms and Apparition, as well as visions and premonitions, have brought distant wizarding communities together since the Middle Ages.Fourteenth Century – Seventeenth Century
at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]] Some wizards did not like to talk about their Muggle relatives, or even denied their existence altogether. Other wizards, such as Lord Voldemort, had even murdered some of their Muggle relatives altogether. Other wizards, like Arthur Weasley, found Muggles to be highly intriguing and ingenious. Hermione Granger, a Muggle-born witch, took up Muggle Studies at Hogwarts because she felt it would be fascinating to think about Muggles from a wizarding perspective.
A Muggle who performed illusions or tricks to make it look as real magic was known as a magician. A true wizard being called magician was a grave insult to them, as Vernon Dursley did to James Potter (I).
- Wizards are mentioned to be male members of wizardkind, while witches are mentioned to be female members (although the word "wizard" can be used to generalise). This is technically incorrect, as the male version of a witch is called a warlock and the female version of a wizard is called a wizardess.
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