{"footnote":"\u003Cp\u003E  I gave up on Harry after reading that Dumbledore, as well as being headmaster of Hogwarts, is also a \u0026lsquo;supreme mugwump\u0026rsquo;. One, this is uneuphonious. Two, it is clearly related in sound while  completely unrelated in meaning to \u0026lsquo;muggles\u0026rsquo;, that annoying word the wizards use for ordinary humans. Three, \u0026lsquo;mugwump\u0026rsquo; is actually Algonquin for something like \u0026lsquo;top leader\u0026rsquo;. But the word\u0026rsquo;s most  prominent use is in William Burroughs\u0026rsquo;s Naked Lunch (1959), in which mugwumps are horrible see-through creatures who \u0026lsquo;have no liver and nourish themselves exclusively on sweets\u0026rsquo;. So J.K. Rowling  hasn\u0026rsquo;t read Burroughs. But surely someone at her publisher has?\u003C\/p\u003E\n","audio":[],"video":[]}