The Magic - Part 2 - Where does it come from?




So how did these characters get these powers? Well, to tell the truth, I think it's like the X-men.
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Basically, what I mean, is that somehow magic was introduced into the world a while ago (pre-medieval ages) and stuck around, influencing the genes of humans and typically staying within the bloodlines of the humans who it affected, much like in the X-men franchise, where Mystique + Azazel = Nightcrawler, Phoenix + Cyclops = Rachel (telepath/telekentic) or X-man (same).

To quote Harry Potter Wiki:
"Due to the dominance of the magic gene, children born to at least one magical parent will usually be magical themselves."

Then there are these quotes from the books:

"I'm a what?"
"A wizard, o' course... With a mum an' dad like yours, what else would yeh be?"
- HP and the Philosopher's Stone

"What about you, Neville?" said Ron
"Well, my gran brought me up and she's a witch," said Neville, "but the family thought I was all-muggle for ages. My Great Uncle Algie kept trying to catch me off my guard and force some magic out of me... but nothing happened until I was eight." -same as above

But it doesn't always stay within a family, or run directly through a bloodline. Sometimes it may skip a few generations (recessive genes)

"Muggle-borns (see below) are children of muggles and have the magic gene because of a squib, half-blood, or pure-blood ancestor)" - Harry Potter wiki, 'Blood-status'

To simplify terms used in the series concerning the magic system and it's involvement in genetics, I made a chart:












For examples, the Dursleys are muggles, without magic, "The Dursleys want to be ordinary, average, and normal, and Harry Potter prevents the possibility of all this, which is terrifying to them." - Richard Griffiths #HarryPotter #UncleVernon #Dursleys #RIPRichardGriffiths:

Hermione is muggle-born,

 Hermione Granger shouldn't have gotten married!! OMG this is so realistic and so deeply right!!:

Harry is a pure-blood/half-blood,


 Professor Flitwick is a half-breed (human/goblin),
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Neville was almost a squib,
and the Weasleys are pure-bloods (though it is pointed out that every magical family has at least some muggle blood in them, otherwise people would have had to interbreed and that tends to have adverse effects on morality, sanity, personality, etc.)
 Everyone keeps talking about wanting love like James/Snape and Lily....... I want love like the Weasleys :


So with the discussion in my last post (magic is not 'taught') applied with this study in genetics, I think we can safely assume that the term 'witch or wizard' seems to have just been stamped on for lack of better term and not wanting to fall into the category of superhero fantasy.

 
It's just not the same.


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