Molly Weasley's (Red?) Hair

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 4429

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Malabud <Malabud at e...> wrote:
> Nick and Kelley have been discussing back and forth the color of 
Molly
> Weasley's hair, and I thought I'd add my thoughts. 
> 
> The gene for red hair must come from both parents in order for the 
children
> to have red hair. Of course, it is not necessary for Mrs. Weasley 
to have
> red hair to pass on the gene. Considering that *all* the Weasley 
children
> have "flaming red hair", it is highly unlikely that she does not 
have red
> hair herself.
> 
> I don't own a copy of PoA (blasphemy, I know), so I can't quote 
directly,
> but isn't there a passage in the opening chapters about how all the 
Weasleys
> (including the parents) have red hair? Harry's looking at the cover 
photo on
> the Daily Prophet of all the Weasley's in Egypt. The photo is in 
black and
> white, but Harry knows they all have red hair. Can someone help 
with this
> passage?
> 
> Malabud
> 
> 
> 
> 
>Oh, goodness gracious me, now we're going to test my knowledge
of genetics? I'd rather quote from Doyle's the Red Headed League....
 I thought red hair was a recessive like blue eyes......
so that Molly Weasley could have it as a recessive and have brown
hair and Arthur could have red hair/red hair...this would make it
POSSIBLE for all of their children to have red hair (particularly
since EACH coin toss has equal probability and doesn't have any effect
on the next coin toss..). But *I* think it unlikely that ALL the
Weasley kids would have red hair and Molly not. 

In addition, Malfoy says at some point all the Weasleys have red hair 
and more kids than they can afford. ( I think)

So..happy to have all these theories/comments refuted.

Susan
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