Louis Jourdan asked in USMA 10319: >Some time last year, there has been on this list an exchange about J. >K. Rowling who wrote in one of her successful books "metric is for >Muggles". > >The Harry Potter series are now invading France. I wonder if this >phrase has been kept in the French edition and if yes, how it has >been translated. > >As I don't intend to buy and read the whole series of Harry Potter >books, but just to consult a few of them in a book shop, who can tell >me in which title/chapter the phrase is to be found ? I don't think you can find that sentence in the Harry Potter books. J. K. Rowling was asked by a journalist in Toronto what was her attitude to the metric system. She replied "metric is for muggles". Someone pointed out in a letter to the editor that the muggles are the ordinary people
