Wizardlings

**Wizardkind also Wizardlings** are humanoids that are born with the ability to perform .

An individual male human with magical ability is known as a **wizard** (plural: **wizards**), and an individual female human with magical ability is known as a **witch** (plural: **witches**), though "wizard" is sometimes used as a gender-neutral singular noun like "man".

## Performing Magic

In childhood, wizards and witches may exhibit random bursts of magic, called accidental magic, which are honed and controlled as they progress to maturity.
To perform controlled magic, almost all wizards/witches need to use a wand, although the skill of wandless magic may be mastered in later life. A few highly advanced wizards can do controlled magical acts without a wand,

## Heredity

Magical ability is an inherited trait usually passed from parent to child. Wizards and witches are classified by blood status.
Pure-bloods are born of two wizarding parents and at the very least, four wizarding grandparents. However, many believe a pure-blood family tree should have no Muggle ancestors despite the fact that every family tree has at least one Muggle ancestor by the 1990s.
Half-bloods are mainly born of one wizard and one Muggle or Muggle-born parent.
Muggle-born wizards and witches are distantly descended from a Squib who had married into a Muggle family. The magical gene resurfaces many years later in a Muggle-born descendant when that branch of the wizarding family has usually lost all traces of its wizarding legacy.

## Physiology

The physiology of wizards is subtly different from that of non-wizards. As such, wizards would react differently to the effects of contact with a magical creature, such as being attacked by a murtlap. Wizards also by nature could not be fooled by certain types of magic or magical barriers. It was, for example, possible to hide certain magic from Muggles via Muggle-Repelling Charms, which naturally would have no effect on wizards.[2]
Wizards have the power to cure 'mundane' illnesses and injuries, and contact with non-magical creatures that Muggles cannot. However, they can struggle to repair any damage caused by magical means such as the Memory Charm and Unforgivable Curses.[3]

### Life span

Wizard life expectancy in Britain reached 137¾ years in the mid-1990s, according to the Ministry of Divine Health,[4] although the oldest wizard on record reached the age of 755 in late 1991;[5] wizards have a much longer life expectancy than Muggles.[6]

## Sub-types

Some wizards exhibit special inborn (or acquired) attributes which mark them as unique amongst their kind. They are listed as follows:

### Seers

Some wizards are born with abilities beyond those of the average wizard. Seers, for example, have the skill of insight into future events. They may garner this insight through visions and dreams or through scrying physical objects like tea dregs, tarot cards, and crystal balls. Some seers include Sybill Trelawney and her ancestor Cassandra.

### Animaga

While some wizards have the ability to turn into animals, it is not an inherent power, but rather a trained technique. This type of wizard is called an Animagus (plural **Animagi**). Rabbitty was said to be an Animagus with the ability to transform into a rabbit. Professor McGonagall is an Animagus who can turn into a cat. The first recorded Animagus was Falco Aesalon, who could turn into a falcon. The Animagi have to register themselves at the Ministry of Magic , because human Transfiguration can go horribly wrong. However, there are some unregistered Animagi.

### Metamorphmagi

Other wizards may have the ability to change only their physical appearance rather than their bodily form. This type of wizard is termed a Metamorphmagus. Such a wizard can change the shape of their noses, hair colour, and other physical attributes. Nymphadora Tonks and Teddy Lupin were known Metamorphmagi.

### Communicating with Animals

Some wizards and witches have the ability to talk to animals. For instance, a can speak to snakes. This ability is extremely rare. was an infamous Parselmouth, and , such as Lord Voldemort, inherited this trait. also acquired this ability when part of Voldemort's soul bonded with him the night he tried to kill Harry. Other wizards, like for example, have an innate ability to communicate and bond with all kinds of animals. Animagi have also demonstrated being able to subtly influence animals while assuming their animal forms.

### Squibs

Squibs or wizard-borns are individuals born to at least one magical parent who cannot perform magic at all past age 11. Squibs are, in essence, 'wizard-born Muggles.' They are much less common than Muggle-borns and are in fact, very rare. Squibs are looked upon with a degree of disdain by some witches and wizards, especially pure-bloods.

### Late Bloomers

There exist some individuals that continue to exhibit a lack of magical power past age 11 and yet spontaneously — in desperate circumstances — manage to perform magic later on in life. However, this is rare, possibly more so than squibs.

### Legilimens

Legilimens are people who can perform Legilimency. These people can tune into other people's minds, but have difficulty reading the minds of those people who can perform Occlumency. The act of Legilimens is referred to as mind reading in the Muggle world.

### Occlumens

Some wizards have the ability to protect their minds from others who can perform Legilimency. This ability is called Occlumency. Severus Snape tried teaching Occlumency to Harry Potter during Harry's fifth year in Hogwarts.

### Obscurial.

An Obscurial is a witch or wizard who, due to being raised in an environment where their magic is viewed negatively, develops an Obscurus; a dark parasitic force resulting from their own magic being suppressed and tainted by negative emotion. Obscurials rarely live beyond the age of 10, the only verified case being that of Credence Barebone.
Due to the extensive time spent suppressed, their magic, when unleashed, can perform feats far more powerful than that of the average witch or wizard, though only for short spans of time as the user's death often follows soon after