Lineage Comes From the Father: Difference between revisions

 

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* Played straight in ''[[The Dresden Files]]''. Pretty much all of the [[Royally Screwed-Up|royal family of]] [[Emotion Eater|White Court vampires]] were born from human mothers and got the vampirism from Lord Raith. Inverted for the main character himself, whose mother has so far been more important to the story than his father. This is because magic is almost always passed along matrilineal lines (it has to do with exposure to magic prior to birth - a child whose father has a talent for magic might have the genes for it, but they'll probably be dormant).

** Though since Harry's mother died in childbirth, his father Malcolm's kind and naive nature was a major influence on Harry's personality.

** And of course, Dumbledore's protection spell only works because Harry has living family on his ''mother's'' side.

** On the other hand, read anything at all about Harry's mother and you'll realize that he inherited a heck of a lot of her personality, for all that he looks like his dad.