Muggles tolerant of wizarding children?

[Sarah Learmonth]

No: HPFGUIDX 47364

Jazmyn wrote

>I would think that anyone with wizards in their family >would know they had them and that info passed down. >Muggles don't spontaneously produce wizard kids, they 
>had to inherit those magical genes from somewhere.
>Possibly both parents would have to carry the 'recessive' >gene as well, assuming its a recessive gene as it skips >generations sometimes. So even if one parent was >adopted/fostered/orphaned and didn't know about >having wizarding in their bloodlines, its likely the other >one might know. 

Now me
A parent with a recessive gene need not know that they carry it.  To take an example, in the caucasian population the most common recessive disease is cystic fibrosis.  One in 25 of the population carry this gene but only 1 in 2500 live births result in a child with cystic fibrosis.  And most of those occur to parents with no family history of the disease.  Now obviously once a couple have had a child with cystic fibrosis then they and their immediate family are more aware of the disease and may well get tested to see if they too carry the gene.

So in terms of magic genes.  Someone with one magical gene would need to mate with someone else with the gene.  They would have a 1 in 4 chance of producing a magical child, the same chance of a child with no magical genes and a 1 in 2 chance of a child with one magical gene.  So much more likely never to become aware of the potential for magic and to continue on their muggle way.

And if there is genetic testing for magical genes then those familes who are totally opposed to magic could be checked and, um, modified so as not to produce anymore magical children.

Just a thought

Iarmain


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