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Exposure to Magic?

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nedserD C B yrraH:
My books are packed (moving in a week) so I can't check. My recollection is that Charity swore off magic the day she met Michael. Michael doesn't seem the type to have premarital sex. So I doubt Charity performed any magic while pregnant. There may have been some lingering in her blood from the lifestyle she had been living, but I don't recall her using magic while with Michael.

nadia.skylark:

--- Quote --- My recollection is that Charity swore off magic the day she met Michael. Michael doesn't seem the type to have premarital sex. So I doubt Charity performed any magic while pregnant. There may have been some lingering in her blood from the lifestyle she had been living, but I don't recall her using magic while with Michael.
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She didn't have to be using active magic to have it moving through and around her, any more than Harry has to be actively casting a spell to fry technology. It helps, of course, but the fact that hexing occurs when wizards are not using active magic demonstrates that a practitioner has some level of magic flowing through them at all times.

I don't have my books with my either, but as I recall it takes a while for one's Talent to fade when one is trying to make it, so Charity would still count as a practitioner for at least several months after she gave up magic, and possibly for as long as a few years.

nedserD C B yrraH:
My apologies for being unclear. I meant in regards to the comparison of Lil Harry vs Molly in utero by Mr. Death. The specific statement that Molly was regularly exposed to magic throughout the pregnancy. My statement did allow for potential holdover from her former lifestyle.

My personal theory is that a gentic component is needed as well at least one the parents having used magic enough that it is part of their soul. The souls mingle during sex, per Bob and Thomas, and sex can create a new soul. So if a soul involved in creating the new one has magic in the mix, it shows in the offspring if the necessary genetic component is present. Which might explain the need for time to lose one's Talent; more along the lines of the body recreating its cells over seven years and less like erosion.

nadia.skylark:

--- Quote ---My personal theory is that a gentic component is needed as well at least one the parents having used magic enough that it is part of their soul. The souls mingle during sex, per Bob and Thomas, and sex can create a new soul. So if a soul involved in creating the new one has magic in the mix, it shows in the offspring if the necessary genetic component is present. Which might explain the need for time to lose one's Talent; more along the lines of the body recreating its cells over seven years and less like erosion.
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I agree about the genetic component, but I don't think the soul thing works. After all, the fae are known to be really good at magic, and they don't have souls.

Mr. Death:

--- Quote from: nedserD C B yrraH on April 22, 2019, 05:21:30 PM ---My apologies for being unclear. I meant in regards to the comparison of Lil Harry vs Molly in utero by Mr. Death. The specific statement that Molly was regularly exposed to magic throughout the pregnancy. My statement did allow for potential holdover from her former lifestyle.

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I should've been clearer. I didn't mean that Charity was actively using magic during the pregnancy, but that she still had magic during that time, even if she wasn't using it.

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