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

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 32488


Tuesday, January 01, 2002, 10:02:19 AM, Margaret Dean wrote:

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

I like this much better than the assumption of many in the Baum/Oz
community that all-female groups like Wood Nymphs, Mermaids, etc.
are celibate.

MD> 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? 

MD> Actually, if the veela in her ancestry was her grandmother, that
MD> makes her one-quarter veela.

Um... no, I don't think so.  If there are no "male veela", then
Veela + <male Homo sapiens> should give rise to full Veela... Right??

-- 
Dave

"The singular of 'Animagi' is 'Animagus';
"The plural of 'Veela' is 'Veela'."