What determins weither a muggle born will happen?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 161396

---  "ghost_silver_wolf" <ghost_silver_wolf at ...> wrote:
>
> Is their a genetic factor involved in the muggle family,
> or is it purely random?
> 
> I believe there might be a slight genetic factor, the 
> Creevy (sic) twins  both been wizards.
>

bboyminn:

We have discussed this before but not for a long long 
time.

I will repeat one or two old theories for you -

- Some believe or speculate that there is a finite amount
of magic in the world. When there aren't enough wizard
births to use all this available magic, the magic seeks 
our compatible muggles to inhabit.

-If you don't like the idea of a quantified amount of 
magic then you could look at it as a finite number of 
available magical souls that are available. When the 
wizard world doesn't produce enough babies to take on all
the available magical souls then the souls seek out 
compatible muggles.

-The other theory is genetic. Some where in the very 
distant past of Hermione's family history, wizards do
exist, but through many generations of inter-breeding 
with muggles, that dominant (in the general sense) trait
has faded out. Now, though a combination of the correct 
genetics, the magical characteristic has re-asserted 
itself.

Perhaps it was merely the fact the both Hermione's father
and her mother both had traces of magical ancestry in their
genetic past. When two repressed magical genes came 
together, they created a dominant genetic characteristic.

We had a few people here who are truly knowledgable in
the science of genetics, and they point out that this
idea is generally flawed, but I'm not sure it has to
stand up to pure science. Remember 'The Island of Dr.
Moreau', or 'Frankenstien' or 'Jurassic Park' many other
fiction stories. They may be based in a trace of science,
but absolutely do not stand up to scientific scrutiny.

-Perhaps, there is no explanation beyond magic. Why are
some people blessed with genius? Yes, it could be the
blending of positive genetic characteristics, but genius
is far to rare for that to account for it. So, maybe 
magic is just a gift from the gods, the same way the
genius in it's various forms is.

Mull these ideas over and see if you can come up with
any new possibilities. 

Of the above, genetics has definitely been discussed to 
the greatest depth, and can be found by searching old
posts.

Just passing it along.

Steve/bboyminn