Magical genetics

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 54587

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "manawydan" <manawydan at n...> 
wrote:
> Catlady wrote:
> 
> >But I also suggest that there is also a Magic that keeps the total
> >number of wizarding people constant. When a wizard or witch dies,
> >their magic goes to the next suitable child born in their area.

Ffred replied: 
> The only point that I'd wonder about is whether the mechanism you 
suggest
> would keep wizardly _numbers_ constant or the wizard:muggle _ratio_
> constant.

Finwitch:
I think that this magic keeps not the number of magical people, nor 
the ratio constant, but the amount of magic, much like the total 
amount of energy is constant.

The strength of an individual may depend on *when* magic enters. Say, 
if it enters when the individual is still one single cell (rare 
event) the individual has magic everywhere in the body. Entering a 
single cell and dividing where that cell divides...

-- Finwitch.