The Creevey Brothers

[Angela Evans]

No: HPFGUIDX 48152


OK, so we all know that JKR does nothing without a good reason.  And I think that the Creevey brothers may be important in a way, besides what has been discussed.  OK, so obviously Colin was an important tool in the plot of CoS, but what the hell does Dennis add to this picture?  His sorting is described in relative detail, and then he disappears from the plot, except for an occasional, "the Creevey brothers", and that is it.  Ok, so yes maybe JKR is simply introducing a character that will have a bigger part in future books, but I think they make be more significant as a *precedence*, for Muggle-born wizarding siblings.  
There has been much discussion on the "genetics" of magic.  Magical powers are obviously an inherited trait.  With squibs being relative anomalies, and Muggle-born children being something of chance.  So lets say that a Wizard-born child is a wizard because his parents were.  And Muggle-born wizards are simply the luck of the draw.  You could accept that, IF it were not for the Creevey brothers.  Compare all the children born to Muggles in Britain, to the number of those children who turn out to be magical - it is an EXTREMELY small percentage.  What is the chance that two brothers would happen to be part of that percentage.  OK, so this may force us to see that magical ability is always "genetic" (and I say genetic, but I do not mean an actual piece of DNA, it is no stretch of the imagination to believe that this "magic gene"is outside science)  I had the impression that the Creevey's father is a single-dad, so maybe one can argue that the absent mother is/was secretly a witch.  But let's say that she was not, (canon: the Basilisk only attacked Mudbloods, not half-bloods like Seamus).  Then we have to accept that somewhere along the line there was a Wizarding Creevey, but to both the Creeveys, and the wizarding world, they are completely muggle.
  So all this rambling DOES have a point, I promise.  I think that the Creevey brothers are setting the precedent for Petunia Dursely being magical, and the Evans family having a magical ancestor.  I have always felt that there must be somthing important in the Evans-bloodline, because there is such an emphasis put on Harry and Lily's green eyes (an INHERITED trait, and hints at something about Lily's blood).  
 
ANGELA



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