Wizardkind

Wizardkind
Name	Wizardkind
Lifespan	Many live to be way over 100

Wizardkind (or wizards and witches) is the term given to humans who have inherited the ability to perform magic.

About

Origin

The origins of magic and by extension wizardkind is unknown, but witches and wizards are simply born with magic. When they are young, they perform accidental, spontaneous wandless magic. They will learn to gain an understanding of how control and use magic to the full extent of its power but they need a wand for it to work. It will take great skill and studying to perform wandless magic to the same extent they can with a wand.

Magic is inherited by through their mother or father (or both) and their physiology is subtly unique to that of non-wizards. For example, enchantments will stop Muggles viewing or finding locations in the wizarding world. Their life expectancy is higher due to both natural and magical reasons. Many witches and wizards live to be way over a hundred years old and a few have used magic to prolonged their life, like Nicolas Flamel with the Philosopher's Stone.

Society

Blood status

The way magic is inherited is described by wizardkind as their "blood status", which has been considered a hierarchy with anyone "pure" of blood being superior, true wizards. A pure-blood has at least four wizarding grandparents and two wizarding parents. There are witches and wizards who will claim to have no Muggle ancestry. A half-blood has at least one Muggle or Muggle-born grandparent. A Muggle-born is a descendent of a Squib. The dormant gene is passed down for generations until it resurfaces. They face prejudice in the wizarding world because there are those who have a "higher" blood status who consider them to have weak magic and are undeserving of studying or using their gift.

A Muggle has no magical blood. A Squib is born to at least one wizarding parent but does not inherit their magic gene. They are often shunned in the wizarding world.

Wizarding world

Centuries ago, the wizarding world lived openly with Muggles with whom they communicated and helped, but they tried to keep some things secret including the invention of a flying broomstick. Growing to be envious and afraid, wizardkind were persecuted by Muggles and an International Statute of Secrecy was established to hide the wizarding world.

Wizardkind separated their towns and community using enchantments, e.g. putting their town inside a town. They use enchantments to make a building look like a ruin and dangerous. Only magical beings are able to view its true appearance. There is the option of not living in a wizarding town but in an isolated building, e.g. 12 Grimmauld Place.

Education

An education is provided to younger wizards to refine their ability and gain new skills. There are wizarding schools around the world. They study for up to seven years and takes exams to gain a pass grade in their subjects. It helps students prepare for and gain jobs when they graduate. There are many jobs in the wizarding world, like Magizoology, in government and law, teaching, healing, and in Gringotts, a wizarding bank.

Special gifts

Even though every wizard has the inner potential to use and study magic, a few have inborn skills which can't be learned so they are unique in their own kind. For example, Metamorphmagi have the ability to change their appearance, and a Parselmouth is able to speak to snakes. However, there are other skills they can learn through training. Animagi learn how to turn into an animal at will, a Legilimens learns how to look into people's mind, and an Occlumens learns how to protect their mind.

Trivia

• Rolanda Hooch has yellow eyes. It's unknown whether they are natural and an example of wizardkind's own physiology, or if it happened due to a spell. Tom Riddle had red eyes when he used magic to form a new body which is an example of magic altering appearances.
• If a wizard saves the life of a wizard, they develop a bond or a debt. It is described to be "magic at its deepest".