His best pals are Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson), the former the poor son of a government official, the latter the daughter of «muggles» — non-magical mortals, thus condemning Hermione to the derogatory «
mudblood» epithet and, in more capable hands than Newell's, the kind of class and bullying subplots I've always welcomed in J.K. Rowling's source novels.