The Mauraders' Generation -- no parents

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No: HPFGUIDX 123587


"Pyros Wife" writes:

>I believe FIRMLY that Lily and Petunia's parents were both wizards!  
>Petunia must be a squib, it explains her contempt for anything 
>magical....ANYTHING!

It's been mentioned before that Petunia is not a squib and most of us 
believe she will produce latent witch powers before the end of the 
series.  However, I've never seen a question regarding Dudley.  JKR 
clearly states that Dudley is not a wizard, so if Petunia is a witch, 
that would make Dudley a squib, correct?

I would really like to have some explanation from JKR about the 
genetics behind all this - some Muggles can have witch/wizard kids 
and some witch/wizards can have squib kids.  Where is the logic?  I 
would love to know if there is any rhyme or reason to this, other 
than "JKR wants it that way."  Rather like Katherine Kurtz did in the 
Deryni series.  Although the characters look down their noses 
at "half-Deryni" it turned out that the Deryni gene was passed 
through the mother to the child and there was no such thing as "half-
Deryni" either you were Deryni or you weren't.  JKR's witch/wizard 
talent is the same, either you are magical or you aren't (half-muggle 
doesn't mean less talented) but I would like to know how the gene is 
passed down - and where do muggles like Hermione's parents pick it 
up?  A witch/wizard far back in their past?  How far back?

Nicky Joe