Wizen recessive gene/Petunia

[Deirdre F Woodward]

No: HPFGUIDX 80064

Hi all:

I've been reading posts that indicate that people seem to believe there is a
recessive wizen gene.  (Wizen being the plural, non-gender form of wizard or
witch, which I just made up, I think.  Is there a plural form of the noun?).

I don't buy a recessive gene.  I mean, we are talking about *magic* here.
Why on earth would magic be born of a logical and mappable explanation?  If
anything, wizen children of Muggle parents are born because magic settles on
them, inhabits them -- not that they received a gene from each Muggle
parent.

Also, Petunia:  I think she made it very very clear in Book One that she's
*always* been distant from wizen.  She must be close in age to Lily, and she
spoke quite clearly about her parents being proud there is *a* witch in the
family -- not *another* witch in the family.

SS (hardcover, Am ed of course) pg 53:  "Knew?  Of course we knew! How could
you not be, my dratted sister being what she was . . . I was the only one
who saw her for what she was -- a freak!  But for my mother and father, oh
no, it was Lily this and Lily that, they were proud of having a witch in the
family!"

I think it's pretty clear that Lily was the only witch in the family.

Deirdre