You've got children getting dropped on their heads, regrowing their hair overnight, and all sorts of things with nary a wand in sight. Is a wand simply a channel for power that's already present?
That's my impression. Because think of all the Muggle kids who must evidence magic somehow, and you know they're not picking up their parents' wands or something.
, has anybody come up with a plausible explaination as to why no Muggles have happened to fall through the barrier at 9 3/4 yet? I mean surely not everybody is that blind?
I thought only magical folk could go through the barrier? That it'd be solid to Muggles.
Are wizarding children genetically different and as such the barrier 'scans' them? Is magic genetic? If so then how do the children of Muggles become magical?
I think it is genetic, and that mutation allows for Muggle children (perhaps with Squibs for ancestors down the line) to become magical. After all, Mrs. Black specifically uses the word *mutant* in her diatribe (which I took to mean Tonks, though my dad argues Remus is a mutant, that the werewolf curse modifies the genetics. I don't know about that), and it's an odd word to find in a magical setting.
Re: wands
That's my impression. Because think of all the Muggle kids who must evidence magic somehow, and you know they're not picking up their parents' wands or something.
, has anybody come up with a plausible explaination as to why no Muggles have happened to fall through the barrier at 9 3/4 yet? I mean surely not everybody is that blind?
I thought only magical folk could go through the barrier? That it'd be solid to Muggles.
Are wizarding children genetically different and as such the barrier 'scans' them? Is magic genetic? If so then how do the children of Muggles become magical?
I think it is genetic, and that mutation allows for Muggle children (perhaps with Squibs for ancestors down the line) to become magical. After all, Mrs. Black specifically uses the word *mutant* in her diatribe (which I took to mean Tonks, though my dad argues Remus is a mutant, that the werewolf curse modifies the genetics. I don't know about that), and it's an odd word to find in a magical setting.