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 Dec 10 2008, 08:49 AM
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Dumbledore's Personal Secretary  Posts: 4,980 Joined: 10:28am December 31, 2006 Location: At a violin concert with my boss.  |
 to Leaky Miss_Mimz !Here are a few threads that touch upon Harry's character  Harry and McGonagall - did they sink to the level of the DEs ? Harry's character and power. Harry - the Hero ? Harry Potter - why is he so selfish ? Why is Harry decent ? How can he be ? If none of these discuss questions that you wish to discuss, feel free to open a thread of your own. 
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Dec 10 2008, 10:10 PM
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Being Eaten by the Pea Soup Posts: 18 Joined: 5:50pm September 4, 2007 Location: Canada |
Thank You rowena r
 I'm off to check all of those out 
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Dec 11 2008, 09:28 AM
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Dumbledore's Personal Secretary Posts: 4,980 Joined: 10:28am December 31, 2006 Location: At a violin concert with my boss. |
QUOTE Thank You rowena r You are most welcome. 
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Oct 10 2009, 06:28 PM
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Being Eaten by the Pea Soup Posts: 37 Joined: 3:06pm September 25, 2009 |
I have a question about muggleborns. take hermione for example; she comes from an all muggle family, nothing magical about them at all, and yet she has magical powers and gets to go to hogwarts and all.
how does that happen? i can understand half bloods who have SOME kind of magic in there ancestrial blood, but what about full muggle families and characters? |
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Oct 11 2009, 07:37 AM
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Leaky's SIR Seriously Senior Mad Scientist Posts: 3,365 Joined: 10:31am January 28, 2007 Location: Behind a bubbling cauldron  |
We have heard from JKR that it's a genetic trait; IOW, there is a "wizarding gene".
Probably the best contribution on this has been posted by SeveraSphyrna in "Magical theory - Q's and A's" here (the genetics part starts below the Quote box). Later posts might help to clarify, if you're not that deep into genetics. -------------------- *** OPAST (and proud of it) *** |
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Oct 11 2009, 01:33 PM
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Diagon Alley Watchwizard Posts: 2,286 Joined: 5:11pm May 4, 2007 Location: Texas |
QUOTE(ProudGreen89 @ Oct 10 2009, 06:28 PM)  I have a question about muggleborns. take hermione for example; she comes from an all muggle family, nothing magical about them at all, and yet she has magical powers and gets to go to hogwarts and all. The simple answer to your question is that Jo told us that all Muggleborns have a magical ancestor somewhere in their family tree. Presumably, a Squib was born at some point and married a Muggle. But the magic gene was never lost and at some point one of their descendants turned out to be magical.
how does that happen? i can understand half bloods who have SOME kind of magic in there ancestrial blood, but what about full muggle families and characters? -------------------- "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
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