strangle hand / slavery / genetics / Mulciber

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 183590

Anent wizardling genetics, I've always thought that there wasn't a single gene,
but a set of genes.

1. The gene or genes that allows one to sense magical energies;
2. The gene or genes that allows one to manipulate them;
3. The gene or genes that account for specialized magical abilities, like
metamophomagus, animagus, seer, etc.

If one has 1 & 2, one is a wizardling, and the genes in 3 interact with the ones
in 1 & 2 to produce whatever one's specialized abilities are--and not everyone
even among wizardlings has them.

Squibs may have 1, 2, 3, or 1 & 3.  Those who leave the wizardling world and
marry into Muggle families may pass them on; there are probably any number of
Muggles wandering around carrying partial magical genes, but until/unless they
unite with another such, they won't produce a Muggleborn wizard.  ("Magesport"
is the term I use for such.)

My theory is that mediums, psychics, and the like may have 1.  People who have
extraordinary luck--good or bad--may have 2.

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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