Squib/Muggleborn theory

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No: HPFGUIDX 26733

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Rowena Grunnion-Ffitch 
<rowena_grunnion_ffitch at y...> wrote:
> 
> --- catherine at c... wrote:
> > In fact, couldn't all muggle born
> > wizards/witches have 
> > originally come from magical families, but are
> > actually born from 
> > squibs/descendents of squibs.  Is this genetically
> > possible?  It 
> > would explain why magical children suddenly appear
> > in a long line of 
> > non-magical ancestors.
> 
>       This is possible genetically if 'magic' is a
> recessive gene requiring one from both parents to
> express itself. If this was the case however
> half-bloods would almost always be Muggles which does
> not seem to be the case or intermarriage with Muggles
> would have destroyed rather than preserved the
> Wizarding race.
>     I think 'magic' is controlled by a single dominate
> gene which always expresses itself when present.
> Muggle born wizards and witches are the result of a
> spontaneous mutation.

Yes- it would have to be recessive at least.

If it's genetical, that is. But it's a gene that grants possibility - 
not yet certainty. It must be activated first...

Sometimes it produces art, music, inventions, straight A's --- other 
such creative matters...