Mark Evans

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 86086

Troels wrote: 
> Q: How can two Muggles have a kid with magical powers? Also
>     how does the Ministry of Magic find out these kids have
>     powers?
> A: It's the same as two black-haired people producing a redheaded
>     child. Sometimes these things just happen, and no one really
>     knows why! The Ministry of Magic doesn't find out which
>     children are magic. In Hogwarts there's a magical quill which
>     detects the birth of a magical child, and writes his or her
>     name down in a large parchment book. Every year Professor
>     McGonagall checks the book, and sends owls to the people who
>     are turning 11.


Also there's the question of when squibs who marry muggles become
indistinguishable from muggles. The genes for magic would still be
there, waiting to surface in a future generation. Clearly Lily's
muggle father (and I think Mark Evans's muggle father as well) had
some recent squib ancestors who in turn must have had witch/wizard
ancestors. Maybe, like the gene for red hair, the gene for magical
powers is recessive and both parents have to have it for it to be
passed on to the child. I don't think that's the case, though, since
Lily's mother seems to have been an ordinary muggle. It's JKR's
universe, I realize, so RW genetics may not apply.

Carol