Veelas / Weasels / Death Eater Wannabees

[zfshiruba]

No: HPFGUIDX 187590

 Catlady wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/187524>:

> Not necessarily: maybe full veelas grew on trees or were birthed by veela mothers who conceived by parthenogenesis while half veelas were conceived by veela mothers as a result of sex with non-veela males. Some [human male] listies previously suggested that all veelas are female and reproduce by sex with human males, in which case a veela's daughter would be full veela and her son would be a half-veela, and her son's child would be a quarter-Veela like Fleur. When we saw Fleur's parents in DH, did either of them seem half-Veela? I suspect Lockhart was half-veela.
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> If Potterverse veelas reproduce sexually like normal vertebrates, it is possible that the veelas are the females and some other magical beings are the males of the same species. It appears there are two sexes of giants, two sexes of merfolk, and two sexes of goblins, but I believe JKR has stated that there are only male centaurs. Maybe centaurs are the male veelas. I enjoy the irony of suggesting that trolls are the male veelas, but then who would be the male hags?
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In David Eddings' Belgariad Novels, Dryads reproduce exactly the way the listies suggest, and specific traits, such as hair always breed true in the females. That got me thinking; Perhaps the Veela traits, sex appeal and hair especially, are dominant genes in females and recessive genes in males? So males would appear to be ordinary human males, probably more handsome but otherwise normal. If Veela live in their own communities, it may be a matriarchal society and males never leave their own borders. 

It may even be that Veela genes cause defects in the Y chromosome; in humans a defective Y chromosome produces someone who technically should have been male but is born female. All Veelas would then be female, despite the fact that the father's DNA determines sex. 

Perhaps wizard blood would eradicate the genetic defect so that a son could be born; even if they then had a daughter, she would be able to have sons because the defect would no longer be encoded in her DNA. 

zfshiruba