She also decided that in her fictional magical world, magic would not be a rare occurrence, skill thing, or even a spiritual thing, but strictly racial.

Wizards are born from other wizards. Period. Even muggle-born wizards like Hermione are actually descendants of squibs (wizard-born wizards that have no magic abilities) who left the wizarding world and went on to live as muggles.

I learned that recently and I was so weirded out. Why would you have that? Is it just to crush the children’s hope?