Hogwarts Professors Question
How do muggles become wizards or witches?
Example Hermione Granger and Lily Potter, how did they become witches when their parents are muggles?
Hogwarts Professors Answers
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makintosh said:
Pretty good question 'cause I don't have any idea ...
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mbalzar said:
Chances are that magic is a gene just like hair or eye color. One of their ancestors was probably magical, and the gene just happened to present itself in hermione . (
Or whatever muggle born we may be talking about).
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nene72 said:
Maybe one of their anscestors was a squib so the magic gene was passed on and at sometime in later generations someone is born with both the magic in them and ability to draw it out?...
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ecpjll said:
not possible....no such thing...
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Ninja-Kitten said:
Gene mutation. Although the correct way to phrase this is "how do witches and wizards with two muggle parents have magical powers when no one else in the family does?
Adult muggles cannot become witches or wizards.
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frostydragon said:
There have been many scientific results that indicate that the gifts or what is known as magic is due the brain function. We humans use only a fraction of our brain. In people with gifts areas of the brain that normally have no electrical activity become active during the use of the gift/magic. This activity can be a result of brain trauma or natural abnormality and yes can be handed down through heritage. There are records of people suddenly becoming mediums or having other abilities after accidents to the head or a emotional traumatic experience.
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dragonsmemory said:
Ahem…"pure" Muggles have no trace of magic in their families at all. Witches and wizards like Lily and Hermione have been found to have some trace ofmagic somewhere on the family tree. As long as someone in the family has magic, it is very likely the person in question has magic as well.
Usually, young witches and wizards can't control their magic, making it easier to find them in a crowd of Muggles. Their magic is tied to their emotions. Remember Harry? When Petunia cut his hair so short he was almost bald, he managed to grow it back overnight. Why? He dreaded going to school the next day and hearing the other kids laugh at him.
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Rowan38 said:
Maybe the parents sex was "magical"
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violetsea81102 said:
I know why. Cause magic found them and became them, something like that. Me and my friend thinks that. She is a muggle and she can move things like a inch forwards.
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Ms-Granger said:
There must of been a Squib (someone born without magical powers in a magical family). In her family the magical gene got past down from generation to generation not showing in those people of her family in this case Grangers family aren't magic but Hermione is magic or got her magic from that magic gene. That gene was introduced into the family from the squib and a muggle had there offspring and was carried down .It showed up in Granger.
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