[HPforGrownups] Part-veelas (was halfbloods of other types in HP)

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 32486

Calypso8604 at aol.com wrote:

> I always thougt it funny that there's a race of beings composed entirely of
> women (I presume...though that would be hard to explain full-veela...Argh!
> Must stop thinking too muxh about this) 

Parthenogenesis, anyone?  :)

There are quite a number of "beings" in folklore that are
exclusively one sex or the other.  I'm not sure how much of a
folkloric basis there is for it, but the fantasy roleplaying game
Castle Falkenstein explains the reproduction of such Faerie this
way:  when a member of an exclusively-female race wants children,
she marries one of the exclusively-male types.  All their
daughters will be the female race and all their sons will be the
male one.  Simple.

How that works when they mate with =humans,= I'm not sure!  

> Anyway, this post brought up another thought to my mind; just how much "veela
> power" does a half-veela such as Fleur inherit? 

Actually, if the veela in her ancestry was her grandmother, that
makes her one-quarter veela.  I'm snipping the rest of Calypso's
post since I have no guesses as to Fleur's powers.  I might
speculate, though, in light of the above, that maybe only female
descendants of veelas inherit the veela powers (in any degree) in
the first place.  (So much for Lockhart being part-veela . . . :)
)


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>