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Candidates for future Nemfection?
Kindler:
Makes me wonder what that gene would do. Simply unlock a kind of sixth sense that lets Wizards perceive magic better, maybe?
peregrine:
--- Quote from: Mira on September 04, 2019, 04:26:32 PM ---Or magic is a sex linked gene carried by the mother.. It could also be recessive, which might explain how a future wizard can pop up in a family of vanilla humans..
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Harry's grandma wasn't magical.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Kindler on September 04, 2019, 04:55:39 PM ---Makes me wonder what that gene would do. Simply unlock a kind of sixth sense that lets Wizards perceive magic better, maybe?
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That's basically my view of it. I'm sure it's more complicated because everything is usually more complicated. I'd guess that it's a number of magic genes because different wizards, and lesser practitioners, have different areas of innate talent and levels of strength, so it is probably a combination of multiple genes and environmental factors. And that is only what sets the stage for possibilities. The individual would then have to develop the inborn talents or set them aside like Charity did.
Mira:
--- Quote from: peregrine on September 04, 2019, 07:34:24 PM ---Harry's grandma wasn't magical.
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Exactly, but that doesn't mean she didn't carry a recessive gene for it... Like blue eyes are recessive, yet two brown eyed parents can have a blue eye child if the combo is right.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Kindler on September 04, 2019, 04:16:59 PM --- ... Considering that Wizards' long lives are, per WoJ, a side effect of them using magic rather than a genetic anti-aging trait ...
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Is there (a WoJ on this)?
I was presuming it worked that way from how the books seemed to be written, but hadn't known of this WoJ.
I am presuming it's also responsible for the wizardly "can heal almost anything" effect... Is this also WoJ'ed?
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