As almost everyone above the age of 3 knows, the Harry Potter novels depict a world divided into people who possess magical powers (wizards and witches) and those who do not (Muggles). Not everyone can be a wizard; indeed, after careful review of the evidence, the authors of the Nature letter concluded that wizards evidently inherit their gifts from their parents as predicted by the theories of the 19th-century geneticist Gregor Mendel.
说《自然》杂志有篇文章讨论了哈里波特和隐形基因的关系，该文作者在仔细研究了哈里波特同学的族谱之后得出结论，19世纪的遗传学奠基人门德尔真是牛x，他极有预见性地看到：明显魔法师是从他们父母那里遗传了魔法天赋。