[HPforGrownups] Re: Wizard Genetics

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 6401

naama_gat at hotmail.com wrote:

> I must say I agree with you. We have been told many times that wizardry excludes technology
> (and by implication, science) so it would be an obvious fallacy to subsume wizardry and its
> causes under science.

However, genetics and the passing of talents and characteristics was around for millions of
years longer than the science thereof. Wizardry has to be genetically linked, to some degree,
or there would never have been "wizarding" families, and squibs would not be the rarity they
are. Genetics also, by way of the "hybrid vigor" effect, explains why the half-bloods and
Muggles are often better at wizardry than the pure-bloods.

--Amanda