The Muggle World
People

"Them! Don' listen properly, do they? Don' look properly either. Never notice nuffink, they don't." 
     -- Stan Shunpike

People

  • The Dursleys
    • Vernon Dursley - director of a firm that makes drills, no neck, thickset and bullheaded
    • Petunia Dursley (maiden name: Evans) - Lily Potter's sister, definitely not magical - long neck, horsey teeth; always spying on neighbors, fanatic about neatness, thinks Dudley's immense size is baby fat
    • Dudley Dursley
  • Mrs. Figg - neighbor, sometimes takes care of Harry
    • her cats: Tiddles, Snowy, Mr. Paws, Tufty
    • although Mrs. Figg isn't really a Muggle at all! (BP)
  • Piers Polkiss - friend of Dudley's
    • other friends: Dennis, Malcolm, Gordon
  • at the zoo (SS2)
    • keeper of the reptile house
    • zoo director
  • Aunt Marge - (Miss Marjorie Dursley, Vernon's sister) 
  • Yvonne - Aunt Petunia's friend
  • Col. Fubster - looks after Aunt Marge's bulldogs when she's away (PA2)
  • Mr. and Mrs. Mason - builder, dinner guests of the Dursley's; Mrs. Mason is deathly afraid of birds (CS1)
  • Muggle parents of Hogwarts students
    • Dr. and Dr. Granger - Hermione's parents, who are both dentists (
    • Seamus Finnegan's father (whose wife didn't admit that she was a witch until they were married) (SS
    • Mr. Creevey - a milkman who has two sons who are wizards (CS
  • on television: The Great Humberto, on Monday nights (SS3)
  • toothless old man - lends them his rowboat to get to the hut on the rock (SS3)
  • owner of the Railview Hotel (a woman) (SS3)
  • known inhabitants of Little Hangleton fifty years ago (c. 1940):
    • Dot
    • proprietor of the pub
    • the Riddle family: Mr & Mrs, son Tom
      • Frank Bryce, Riddle's gardener, 28 at time of deaths (b. 1912)
      • the cook - told the pub that Frank was guilty, no doubt about it
      • the maid - found the bodies
  • Mr. Roberts and family (wife, two children) - campground manager who had a most peculiar couple of days recently, although he's forgotten all about it... (GF7, GF9)
  • other campground manager: Mr. Payne
  • Jim McGuffin - weatherman on the evening news Vernon Dursley was watching on November 1, 1981
  • Ted - newsreader on the evening news, November 1, 1981
  • 'Dodgy Dirk' - an inhabitant of Ilfracombe who insists to this day that a "dirty great flying lizard" attacked him on the beach. He is the only Muggle who seems to remember that attack by a dragon in Ilfracombe in 1932; all the other Muggles involved were given Memory Charms by a wizarding family which happened to be vacationing there that day. (FB)
  • Hetty Bayliss - lives in Norfolk; on 1 Sept 1992 she was sure she spotted a flying car while she was hanging out her wash (CS5).
  • Angus Fleet - lives in Peebles, a town in Scotland which is on a route between London and Hogwarts; Angus was mystified by a flying Ford Anglia on 1 Sept 1992 (CS5)
  • Brother Benedict - Franciscan monk from Worchestershire during the Middle Ages (FB)
    • had an encounter with a Jarvey but thought is was an overlarge ferrret, which insulted him then bit him on the nose
    • other monks:
      • the friar - didn't believe Benedict that the ferret talked to him
      • Brother Boniface - made turnip wine

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