On hindsight, there needed to be a single world that denoted the meaning 'one without magic', the same way they had the worlds 'wizard' and 'witch' and 'sorcerer/sorceress' etc, instead of saying 'the one who uses magic'. So the problem was not with the word itself, but with its connotations.
"I don't like to be excluded from the other wizards," Tony admitted shyly. "I feel like by being called a muggleborn, it singles me out, makes me feel like I'll never be one of them properly." His father would often say how, no matter how educated and accomplished a person of colour from the colonies was, you could never make a proper Englishman out of him. Was that his fate in the magical world, to be an outsider that everyone viewed as lesser than?
"I don't like to be excluded from the other wizards," Tony admitted shyly. "I feel like by being called a muggleborn, it singles me out, makes me feel like I'll never be one of them properly." His father would often say how, no matter how educated and accomplished a person of colour from the colonies was, you could never make a proper Englishman out of him. Was that his fate in the magical world, to be an outsider that everyone viewed as lesser than?