They don't know we're not allowed to use magic at home. I'm going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer.

He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip of wood - against a fifty-foot-high, scaly, spike-ridden, fire-breathing dragon.

The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!

Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things.

The Prophet is bound to report the truth occasionally," said Dumbledore, "if only accidentally.

They were the reason that he kept faith with his stars, that reinforced him in his belief that the universe had more in store for him than the mug's game of working for a modest salary until he retired or died.

It was his own grief turned magically to song.