Blurring of Bloodlines

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 103048

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "(Mrs.) Lee Storm wrote: ...I 
would surmise this is probably the case, a fact which some in the WW 
would rather bury than admit.  I say this from a gene-pool point of 
view.
...Genetics break down with a lot of in-breeding; one needs fresh 
stock, so to speak, to keep lines/groups going. This being the case, 
the possibility/probability exists that a truly pure-blood witch or 
wizard is indeed a lot more rare than even the pure-bloods, as I said 
above, would dare to speculate.
...I sincerely believe that, even with muggle blood, there's no such 
thing as an absolute purity of line; someone, somewhere, will have 
other traits brought in...>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

Exactly. Remember the hue and cry when geneticists and other 
scientists determined that the human race originated in Africa, and 
that every human on the planet can be traced through mitochondrial 
DNA to an "African Eve".

And the way the theme of bloodlines drives so much of the plot seems 
to me a dead giveaway that the fatal weakness of the WW is its 
erroneous concept of an essential difference between their world and 
the "muggle" (i.e., normal) one.

--JDR