Magical Theory - Origins of Magic - Grade One

Hello, this is your first class of the year! I am proffesor Dumbledore and will be teaching you magical theory. This isn't typically on the curriculum of hogwarts students, but I feel that it is an important bit of knowledge that all people should know. The way this class is going to be set up is I will give a short lecture and then make a quiz so that I can test your knowledge! 

In todays lesson we will be learning about how exactly magic came around to be and what came up out of it! 

Although no one knows for sure when or how exactly Magic came to be we can know that it did come some time around when the world was created approximatly 6 to 10 thousand years ago. Magic is a supernatural force that changes aspects of the world at fundamental levels. We assume that when creatures (such as elephants and cod) were made magical creatures (such as Phoenixes and Flobberworms) were also created. The similar thing happend with plants. But real magic (one that is used to make spells and potions) is within a human. It is not a organ or part of the body, but more like the soul and mind, a non-physical object that is passed down from generation to generation. 

This brings up the question: Why does some people have magic and others don't? A simple answer to that would be, take genetics. If a persons mom has red hair and dad has black hair (assuming that they are both fully red or black-haired and not mixed) there is a 50/50 chance of having red or black hair. Similar to magic, when the first people came to be there may have been a percent of them that had magic and eventually one person would show magic while the majority wouldn't. Also magic would eventually die off (nearly) completely when they reproduced with non-magic people (muggles) for many generations. Pure blood families may have originated from one human that had full magic blood in him. 

I know this is a lot to take in for the first lesson but it is important to know how we came to be the way we are now, and where it comes from. A continuation of this topic will be held in the next lesson and I am thinking about how best to make the quiz right now so it won't be avaliable yet. 

Any questions, comments and additions will be accepted (best thought gets 10 house points) 

Oooh, sounds fun!

Umm... if you say that people get magic only through genetics.... what about students having magic but also having Muggle parents ?

Magical Theory appeared to mainly cover the nature of how spells worked, and other theoratical aspects of magic. Such as energy transfer during spell casting! And the consequences of meddling with the dangerous and unknown. Laws of magic were formulated to present the findings of the field, such as, Fundemental Laws of Magic.

Medical theory was a part of the curriculum in many famous schools, Such and the Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry, even the Durmstrags Institute.

Lest say when people were created there were two and one had one half magic one half muggle and the other was full magic, they had four kids two of which were half blood and two of which were full blood, then they had kids and resulted in one with no magic one with no magic but it was still in the genes and one with full magic it goes on and on and some of the kids don't show signs of magic but it is still in there genes so the several generations later a mom shows no signs of magic but has it in her blodd and so does the dad, they have a kid and he shows both parts of the magic and therefore is not a muggle but a muggle born

Great question by the way

Well said Hermio- I mean Pandora

Haha, thx, but u can call me Pineapple

Now I understand.... so it's basically all genetics

Also, People who specialised in the field of Magical Theory are called “Magical Theoreticians”

She isn't Pandora

Ig you should be given an extra point for this

Oops I thought it was Cloud, sorry about that Nico and sure 5 points!

Nico- How did you know that ???

Ah, np u can call me that as well. Bet I prefer pineapple

Profile, part- I mean, professor

Oh.... yeah

Um…

What are the chances of being magical if you are muggle born? And your example of if your parents have red and black hair isn’t necessarily correct. The child could, say, have brown hair, it doesn’t have anything to do with their DNA.

Well, it has to do with DNA.