I’m looking forward to more on why wizards are endangered, I though the inbreeding reducing fitness was very interesting, especially since muggle borns come from squibs and that there were squibs rights marches, though with the population of wizards that could’ve been like 60 people and it’d still be significant. It makes me wonder if the wizarding population as been slowly reducing over time, from reduced fitness. Obviously they’re aware that inbreeding has bad effects because they make comments like oh they married their relative and nobody would marry their family because they’d gone crazy from all the pure blood inbreeding. Some still do it and others have wisened up to start dating farther away and less related people but that made me think, what about in the American wizarding world ? They(US) have an even stricter anti-muggle policy so I feel like they would have even more difficulty with reduced fitness than in the uk because wizards in the uk semi regularly marry muggles though I don’t know if that increases the chances of them having squib children. It’d be interesting to see your perspective on the American wizarding world which is more diverse than the uk but still not by much, you’d think the ministry should come up with a family planning office.
It makes me wonder if the wizarding population as been slowly reducing over time, from reduced fitness.
Obviously they’re aware that inbreeding has bad effects because they make comments like oh they married their relative and nobody would marry their family because they’d gone crazy from all the pure blood inbreeding.
Some still do it and others have wisened up to start dating farther away and less related people but that made me think, what about in the American wizarding world ?
They(US) have an even stricter anti-muggle policy so I feel like they would have even more difficulty with reduced fitness than in the uk because wizards in the uk semi regularly marry muggles though I don’t know if that increases the chances of them having squib children.
It’d be interesting to see your perspective on the American wizarding world which is more diverse than the uk but still not by much, you’d think the ministry should come up with a family planning office.
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