Harry Potter Genetics Answer Key Novels & Stories

Mother Agnes says. There seems to be a pattern here. Witches and Hunters must go together. My suspicions are confirmed when I look at the family tree on the next page. There are generations going back hundreds of years, and all of the marriages are hunters and witches. "It just happens that way. It has nothing to do with arranged marriage. We meet and fall in love. Those men just happen to be hunters, except for you. The man who loves you is a watcher, but he could be a hunter," Mother Agnes says.

He raised his brows at me. I raised my hands in compliance. “Maybe the originator was a witch, but she’s not,” I explained. “How so?” he asked. “Magic is like a receding gene in humans. One parent must have it. Not everyone develops it, sometimes it lies dormant for a while, or the person is only a carrier, but there is no guaranty a child will develop magic or not. Although there is a statistical correlation between power and abilities versus inheritance. The more powerful the parent, or if both parents have it, the higher the probabilities of the child developing magic are.”