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*In this verse, Harry Potter becomes someone entirely different because of certain blood adoptions courtesy of Gringotts, takes up a Pseudonym, and publishes articles and books that question the sanity and morality of wixen in the Wizarding World*
Inbreeding and It's Effects in the Dilution of Magical Strength in Purebloods and Ancient Families of the Wizarding World
By: Akilah
In Wizarding Britain a lot of families that have ancient and noble status have steadfast beliefs that keeping their bloodline pure and untainted will equal to retaining the pure strength of the genes and traits passed down from one ancestor to another. And yet in the current generation, more and more obscure talents and magical abilities are dwindling down into almost just one in every five generations. Take Metamorphmagi for example, it is quite well known that the Blacks have been popularized as the family with the absolute surety of passing down Metamorphmagi abilities to their children. However, recent years seem to disprove that notion since the only person inheriting Metamorphmagi abilities of the Black family is the daughter of the late Lord Orion and Lady Walburga Black's disgraced and disowned child, Andromeda Tonks who married a Muggle born.
Or maybe consider the obscure abilities that were known for their commonality back in the day, Parselmouths, Beast Speakers, Natural Occlumens, and others that occupy so little of our population today.
In the Muggle world, there is this concept of a subject called science which is a study of the how's and why's of things that exist in this world physically and metaphorically. Under this particular subject is a topic known as Genetics or to be specific, the study of the how's and why's of Genealogy and Lineage. Why do people inherit certain physical or mental traits and attitudes from their ancestors or parents? Well, the muggles have discovered that a certain component that is found throughout our bodies called Genes hold these traits that come from the mother and father of the child because of the parental genes combining in the process of fertilization or pregnancy in the womb. Now muggles have long since known that inbreeding, or having a child with a close relative with roughly the same genetic traits may dilute the other traits that may have been inherited from a non-relative ancestor. Makes you wonder right? If in the muggle world, having a child with a relative that hold similar or even almost identical traits dilute or weaken the other possible traits that have the potential to be inherited from an ancestor/s, what's to say that the same thing isn't happening in the wizarding world? After all, wizarding Britain has an incredible history of inbreeding since the 1640's because of an apparently misconceived notion that keeping the family and in turn the bloodlines 'pure' and 'untainted' will help 'strengthen' the child or the family. What's to say that the ancient families of the wizarding world haven't erased all possibilities of returning the once prided abilities and talents of their bloodlines to the current and upcoming generations since Magic existed?
That's not even counting the deformities that inbreeding causes to the children birthed from it. It has been a lesson learned for the muggles since repeated attempts of inbreeding causes the diminished abilities and capacity to think, extra limbs or appendages that are not quite normal for the human body, and physical and mental disabilities that stem from the repeated genealogical combination of specific genes and traits.
This author does not intent to threaten or cause hurt to the wizarding population, but these speculations might be proven to be true since the most powerful magicals in the current generation include halfbloods that come from ancient and noble families mixed with new unrelated blood relatives or muggleborns that are entirely new magical beings bestowed magic by Lady Magic herself. Maybe that's the reason why more and more muggleborns are popping up throughout the wizarding world. To introduce new blood to ancient families and restore the wizarding population to its former, powerful glory by Lady Magic herself.
This article has been published by an anonymous author who only wants to share his findings to the wizarding world and to encourage others to research and learn if there may be a grain of truth from his formed speculations. It is entirely up to the wizarding world to think and take action for itself, for the glory of the wizarding world.