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

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 32490

Dave Hardenbrook wrote:
> 
> 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.

That only works if they're also immortal.
 
> 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??

Well, going by that system, there would be no such thing as a
=half=-Veela either, and therefore Fleur would simply be . . . a
Veela.  As would her sister.  And somehow I don't think that's
the case; both of them seem too human.  So evidently, however it
works for other creatures, when a Veela mates with a human
there's some dilution of the strain (whether or not it passes to
daughters only or both sexes).


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>