[HPforGrownups] Re: wizard geneology - Genius or Baloney?

[silmariel]

No: HPFGUIDX 148238


> Kelleyaynn:
>
> With all due respect to JKR, she doesn't apparently understand
> genetics at all. Magic CANNOT be dominant. If that were so, you
> couldn't get a magical child from muggle parents - at least they would
> be INCREDIBLY rare, even more so than squibs, and that just isn't the
> case. Trying to work out the genetics of magic makes much more sense
> if magic is recessive.

By sheer dumb luck I've found a note with this post number, it treats magic as 
dominant, using 3 genes.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/76090

Silmariel