Wizarding genetics

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 180672

Catlady, that was an interesting analysis.  I don't know enough about genetics
to speak to the scientific side, but there is a question that arises for me.  It
seems that SOME Squibs at least, although they can't actively work magic, have
passive magical senses.  Flitch, for example, can see ghosts and other magical
phenomenon, and seems to be able to communicate with Mrs. Norris in a way that a
normal human couldn't with an animal; when Mrs. Figg asserts that Squibs can see
Dementors she's not telling the truth, of course, but the Wizinagemot don't seem
to think that it is impossible, and she too seems to be able to communicate with
her kneazle/cat hybrids.

My opinion is that there are two sets of genes--one that enables one to sense
magical energies, and one that enables one to manipulate them.  If one has both,
one is a wizard; if one can sense them, but cannot manipulate them, one is a
Squib.  What one would call someone who could manipulate them if s/he could
sense them, I don't know.  Perhaps they are the people who seem to have unusual
luck, good or bad--they are unconsciously manipulating those magical energies
which are all around them, but which they cannot consciously sense.  Muggleborn
Squibs are what we call Psychics, Mediums, etc.

Bruce Alan Wilson

"The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.  Other forms of
transport grow daily more nightmarish.  Only the bicycle remains pure in
heart."--Iris Murdoch



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