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The opposite of a Muggle-born is a Squib.
A non-magical person. Muggle is a term used by the Wizarding community to refer to those who do not possess magic and do not come from a family of magical people. Muggles are often unaware of the Wizarding community, and are therefore unaware of being called Muggle.
A witch or wizard may be born into a Muggle family, as in the case of Lily Potter or Hermione Granger, or they may be produced from the union of a Muggle and witch or wizard, much like Severus Snape or Tom Riddle. See also Half-Blood.
The opposite of a Muggle-born is a Squib.
A witch or wizard who can speak Parseltongue, the language of snakes. A Parselmouth may not even realize he or she is speaking a different language, as he or she will seem to converse with the snake (with the snake answering back) in the Parselmouth's native language (i.e. English). However, to those that don't speak Parseltongue, both the snake and the Parselmouth seem to be hissing nonsensically at each other.
Parselmouths are so rare that only a few witches and wizards have been know to have had the ability: Herpo the Foul, Salazar Slytherin, Corvinus Gaunt, Gormlaith Gaunt, Marvolo Gaunt, Morfin Gaunt, Merope Gaunt Riddle, Tom Riddle Jr., and Harry Potter.
Parseltongue
A popular sport in the Wizarding community, consisting of seven players on broomsticks playing against another seven players on broomsticks in an oval-shaped pitch, or field. Each team consists of one Keeper, three Chasers, two Beaters, and one Seeker. The Keeper guards three hooped goalposts on their team's side of the Quidditch pitch, while the Chasers try to score on the other team's goalposts using a red ball called a Quaffle. Meanwhile, little balls called Bludgers try to knock the players off their brooms, which is where the two Beaters come in. The Beaters are each given a bat to swing at the Bludgers, in an attempt to knock the balls away from their own team and towards the other team. In the midst of all this, the Seeker attempts to find and chase the Golden Snitch, a small golden ball with wings that flies around and above the players. As soon as the Seeker catches the Snitch, the game ends, and the Seeker's team is awarded 150 points, usually winning the game for his or her team. However, there have been exceptions, as at the 1994 Quidditch World Cup, in which Bulgaria and Ireland had been playing against each other. Bulgaria's Seeker, Viktor Krum, had caught the Snitch, but Ireland had been so far ahead in score that the 150 points awarded to Bulgaria hadn't made any real difference and Ireland had won.
Squib
A non-magical person born into a family of witches and wizards.