[Solved] blood status question

how rare do two squibs produce a pureblood? I was thinking of doing that for a stringfellow character I have in mind. I do want the muggleborn aspect there.  The other paternal line would be from the previous family I made. 

It was mostly as I was interested in the character attending Durmstrang, but I was not sure how best to go about it. or would something like magical adoption work where he could simply claim halfblood status through that manner?

Hiya John -

not sure where you are going with this.

1 | Squibs are produced rarely. I haven't got an exact number on it, but I'd imagine it's maybe 1 in 500 birth or in that general ballpark. It is common enough for people to know about it and for there to be public awareness. In a way, I always saw it like the wizarding version of something like "down syndrome" in terms frequency and impact. It produces a person of different abilities, that are limited in some aspects but also quite exceptional in others. Please don't use that analogy anywhere - merely put it here to illustrate my thinking.

2 | Magical Adoption of what? A muggleborn or squib? That doesn't make any sense. A squib would not be magically skilled enough to be enrolled at Durmstrang. As for a muggleborn adoption... it's theoretically possible, but it won't make the child a halfblood.

3 | Do it the obvious way: LIE about it.
Seriously - I always imagined purebloods and people at Durmstrang to be less than honest. If you want to play a character with a muggle background that passes off as a pureblood just do that. If you want them to be seen as a "pureblood" have the family lie about it. If you are joining an existing family obviously check if it matches their EFBs and is okay with the original drivers.

A squib results from two pureblood parents (see our blood status guide if you haven't found it already ). So if you were to have a pureblood child born of two squibs, I don't understand where the muggleborn aspect would come in?

As for how often the occurrence is, I would say it's as rare as a magical child arising from a muggle family. And as there are far less squibs than muggles, statistically it's going to be fairly unusual. That's not to say you shouldn't go down that route if it fits the character, however.

I'm a bit confused as to where their having a squib family or not would affect them attending Durmstrang, though. If at least one family line is either pure or halfblood and they have the money, a magical child would be able to attend.


~ Carys

EDIT: Whoops, Julie beat me to it!

the muggleborn aspect I meant just as I assumed he would likely be raised as a muggle instead of a witch or wizard. But got most of my answers though.

You mean the child of two squibs would be raised as a muggle? That would really depend on their family history. If the squibs were living as muggles then that makes sense up to a point, but unless they had been completely cut off from their respective families then the child could know about their magical grandparents, or at the very least suspect something strange about them. And in that case the whole family would be on the lookout in the hopes that the child *might* show signs of magic, I would imagine.

After my conversation with medusa, I know it would be completely cut off from the stringfellow side. On the other Ive not decided completely.

one more thing, is gringotts likely to hire a wizard as an accountant, if they have the proper training? I know they have curse breakers as such, but I was not sure.

seems unlikely... but with a good explanation why not?