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Salic Law and Harry's Understanding of Magic Genetics
Mira:
--- Quote from: Arjan on August 08, 2018, 05:40:10 PM ---Thomas can use magic as shown in the short story Backup, he just is not as good as Harry and did not spend much effort training.
He can do a tracking spell though.
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Thomas can, but the magic he did employ didn't go too far beyond what most vanilla humans can do.. Butters under Harry's direction achieved pretty much the same in Dead Beat... However a little talent can go a long way if one chooses the dark path as we saw in Storm Front with Victor eventually becoming a sorcerer...
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Mira on August 09, 2018, 02:35:50 PM --- Thomas can, but the magic he did employ didn't go too far beyond what most vanilla humans can do.. Butters under Harry's direction achieved pretty much the same in Dead Beat... However a little talent can go a long way if one chooses the dark path as we saw in Storm Front with Victor eventually becoming a sorcerer...
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Thomas managed a fairly complicated tracking spell under tutelage of Bob but with his own power. It was a tracking spell more complicated than his own tracking spell. Butters only did a circle. The other things he did were not just done by Bob but also powered by Bob.
Thomas definitely inherited some of his mothers talent, he just didn't do that much with it.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Arjan on August 09, 2018, 02:43:58 PM ---Thomas managed a fairly complicated tracking spell under tutelage of Bob but with his own power. It was a tracking spell more complicated than his own tracking spell. Butters only did a circle. The other things he did were not just done by Bob but also powered by Bob.
Thomas definitely inherited some of his mothers talent, he just didn't do that much with it.
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I seem to remember Thomas saying that a tracking spell isn't that difficult...
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Mira on August 09, 2018, 07:03:04 PM ---I seem to remember Thomas saying that a tracking spell isn't that difficult...
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It is a real spell not like a circle. His simple tracking spell did not work so Bob explained a more complicated one.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: Mr. Death on August 08, 2018, 04:41:52 PM --- (click to show/hide)Harry's grandmother was not a wizard, for instance. Sometimes it might skip a generation, or a parent with a small talent has a kid with a big talent (see AAAA Wizardry, where a woman who's a sensitive and nothing else has a daughter with a much stronger gift).
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I think Maggie Sr. inheriting her magic from her father's side was even lampshaded in the book as an example that there are exceptions the the usual matrilineal inheritance.
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