The Core of the Elder Wand and other new JKR explanations

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 179716

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "muscatel1988" <cottell at ...> 
wrote:
><SNIP>
>> Yes, I do, but not half as annoying as: "A couple of people have 
told
> me that they hoped to see Dudley at King's Cross in the Epilogue,
> accompanying a wizarding child. I must admit that it did occur to 
me
> to do that very thing, but a short period of reflection convinced 
me
> that any latent wizarding genes would never survive contact with 
Uncle
> Vernon's DNA, so I didn't do it".
>><SNIP>

Alla:

Personally I loved this part the most. I took it as explanation of 
writing process, of why she chose to make this decision, chose this 
plot development and not another. I want to know more things like 
this.

Like why she added Hallows to the mix, what triggered it in her 
mind, etc, etc.

And whether she studied genetics or not, I found this joke to be 
very funny and spot on, even if it was scientifically completely 
wrong. Which I cannot say one way or another, since I certainly did 
not studied genetics, except very briefly during high school biology 
course and I do not remember much of it to my shame.

But any collision with uncle Veron indeed seems to harmful for 
wizarding child, so yes, I liked it a lot.

JMO,

Alla