What are muggles, anyway?

[dasienko at email.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 20256

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., rcraigharman at h... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Milz" <absinthe at m...> wrote:
> 
> True, but I have to wonder if these would count as scientific
> research as we understand it.  After all, genetic research can only
> go so far on Punnett squares and monastic gardens.

> 
> When I read of Dumbledore discovering the 12 uses for Dragon's 
Blood,
> I envision the Edisonian type of directed trial and error that gave
> us the light bulb.  Similarly, the discovery of the Wolfsbane potion
> seems to be about on the same level as preparing foxglove or willow
> bark or finding new drugs in our times by using the reports of the
> indigenous peoples of the Amazon or South Pacific.
> 
> It seems to me that a search for the magic gene would require
> greater science than the wizarding community uses....
> 
There are those witches and wizards that have entered the muggle 
world. There are a few instances of Hogwarts students saying that one 
of their parents are muggle, Tom Riddle is one of them. It is a 
possibility that the wizards/witches that are interested in doing 
muggle type of scientific research do enter the muggle culture and 
interact with muggles and maybe do wizard research on the side. 

In the children that are wizard born to muggle parents, wizardry may 
be a recessive gene in both parents. The opposite would be true for 
squibs. 

What is the scientifc method if not directed trial and error of a 
hypothesis? What is magic to one generation is science to the next.