> There were no questions about his father accompanying him to the magical side of King’s Cross Station. Dad had trouble just looking at Harry’s trunk directly.
> Wizards, Squibs, and Muggles. Two copies and you can cast spells, one copy and you can still use potions or magic devices, and zero copies means you might even have trouble looking straight at magic.
Recalling that continuing to look directly is a default action for anything alive: it means that something must disrupt the signals so that a nonmagical would look to the side. It would make sense a Muggle complex would do it, in contrast to some charm on the item itself, because the former is closer to brain architecture.
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As an implication of magic-as-default, we can infer that
Voldemort did not figure these genetics out: in the scene of reviving Hermione, he does not know if magic would return to her or be lost forever.
> “Girl’ss body iss resstored. Ssubstance iss repaired. But not magic, or life… thiss iss body of dead Muggle.”
In foresight, there’s one more hint for magic-as-default:
Muggles have problems seeing magical things, and probably using them too.
> There were no questions about his father accompanying him to the magical side of King’s Cross Station. Dad had trouble just looking at Harry’s trunk directly.
> Wizards, Squibs, and Muggles. Two copies and you can cast spells, one copy and you can still use potions or magic devices, and zero copies means you might even have trouble looking straight at magic.
Recalling that continuing to look directly is a default action for anything alive: it means that something must disrupt the signals so that a nonmagical would look to the side. It would make sense a Muggle complex would do it, in contrast to some charm on the item itself, because the former is closer to brain architecture.
(Hiding quotes because, in most probability, these comments can get to front page and would then be spoilers.)