What, no muggles? JK Rowling fans aghast at new term for non-wizards

As first images from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them hit the web, Entertainment Weekly has controversially revealed that the film’s witches use term ‘no-maj’ to describe non-magical compatriots

It’s a word that has become so wholly co-opted into the lexicon that it even entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 2003. So it should perhaps come as little surprise that fans of Harry Potter author JK Rowling are complaining over the replacement of the traditional term for a non-magical person in the writer’s books, muggle, with a rogue American equivalent in new movie Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

Entertainment Weekly published the first images from Rowling’s film, which is set 70 years before the events of the Harry Potter books and movies, on Wednesday. And the magazine has revealed that American witches and wizards use the alternate term “no-maj”, short for “no magic”, when describing those who are unable to practise spell casting.

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NOPE. I refuse. I will not call muggle No-Maj. Nope nope nope. https://t.co/36m797puYN

The new word, replacing 'Muggle' is now 'No-Maj', for the spinoff films. What kinda shit is that.

Apparently American wizards don't say muggle, they say no-maj. I don't like this I am a #muggle!

I've been accepting of the evolving nature of the Harry Potter franchise but "No-Maj" crosses an unspeakable line. https://t.co/iE8stuJ5x5

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