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Hermione was looking through the small "Muggle" section of the bookstore, which she regularly did to get a sense of what the wizarding populace thought of their non-magical counterparts. The simple answer was "not much," given the scarcity of recent books about Muggles. What the Great War of the Muggles Means to You, by a Roland Knockbuckle was one of the more recent books on the shelf, which billed itself as a "Wizard's Guide to the Current War." Knockbuckle, while probably not a pureblood supremacist, was certainly an alarmist, and thought that the mutual exchanges of poison gas on the Western Front and the bombing of London by Zeppelins were likely a prelude to a Muggle assault on the wizards of Europe. He said the tactics used in the war showed that Muggles were vicious, inventive, and far more capable and ruthless than wizards normally gave them credit for. Hermione smiled at that compliment, backhanded though it was. She wondered what Knockbuckle would have made of that war's sequel two decades later, and noted that he called for enterprising wizards to develop spells to combat the ever-increasing weapons of the Muggles.

More typical were some other titles on the shelf. The Amusing Sports of the Muggles by Tybalt Chesterfield was one of them, portraying Muggles as simple and quaint, and focusing on things like tug-of-war, the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, the Eton Wall Game, and Cheese Rolling in Gloucestershire. Another was Twenty Years as a Muggle by Jürgen Eckert, written in 1796. There was also Muggles: The Gathering Hordes, a pureblood supremacist screed by one Hypolite Malfoy, undoubtedly an ancestor of Draco, who predicted that unless radical and violent measures were taken, "the fecund Muggles will destroy us all by sheer numbers by 1830 at the latest." By the dust on the cover, Hermione was sure the book had been on the shelves at least that long.

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