Does ancestry play a part in magical ability? was: The permanent prob. with Slyt
potioncat
willsonkmom at msn.com
Tue May 25 15:17:14 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 99379
Mandy wrote:
>
> Do the children of two Magical parents have an advantage? If they
do
> then selection based on blood purity has validity and merit. They
> would by nature have greater potential to pass on to their
offspring,
> and the rules of natural selection dictates that at least some
> pureblood must remain or the WW would eventually die out.
>
> What canon do we have to support either argument? Why does the WW
> contain mostly pureblood families if ancestry doesn't play a
part?
Potioncat:
Currently in the WW there is a group who believe Purebloods are
better than Muggle-born...just because. Half-blood isn't quite as
good as Pureblood, but at the point that all grandparents are Magic,
you are considered Pureblood. This is convention, not genetics.
And it is of course, my interpretation of canon.
It goes with my opinion that Salazar Slytherin wanted only those
students who were from magic families. And at that time, IIRC, not
every magic child went to Hogwarts. (I'm not sure about every magic
child now, but I don't know that canon speaks to that.) But whether
or not he was correct, I think his intention was changed over the
years.
Potioncat
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