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Chapter 191 Need a Squib

Although gene sequencing technology has only been around since 1977, it has always been the gold standard for testing because of its long sequencing read length, which can reach 800-1K bp, and short sequencing time, which only takes tens of minutes to complete a sequencing. The sequencing accuracy is as high as 99.999%, which has always been the gold standard for testing.

Even after the emergence of second and third generation technologies, its status as the gold standard has not been shaken.

However, this technology has low throughput and high cost, which affects its truly large-scale application.

Moreover, in the world of Harry Potter, this technology cannot be promoted because it is still a laboratory product in this era. The real commercial use of gene sequencing technology was not until the 21st century.

Although the world of Harry Potter is set in 1991, the period from the end of the th century to the first decade of the st century was the fastest period of technological advancement and the period of large-scale application of human scientific and technological achievements.

During this period, all the technologies that emerged during the Iron Curtain period entered the civilian application period. This period can also be seen as a period of great explosion in human technology.

So 1991, the beginning of the last decade of the 20th century, and the end of this period are two completely different eras.

It seems that there is not much difference in civilian technology, but in fact the contents are already very different. Moreover, all technologies have undergone new changes in places that the public has not noticed, just like gene sequencing technology has moved from the laboratory experimental stage to the large-scale use stage in the laboratory.

However, these technologies have never been commercialized.

Not only is this technology not commercialized, many technologies were not officially commercialized until the first decade of the 21st century.

So Draco always felt that he was somewhat restricted, because even if he used the most advanced machines brought from other worlds, no one would use them in this era.

Conventional instruments are still okay, but the more advanced the instrument, the fewer people will use it, because all cutting-edge scientific instruments are used at the forefront of science, and are originally customized by top scientists for their own research. In fact, many scientific instruments are only used by a few people.

So it’s not that Draco Malfoy doesn’t want to carry out relevant promotions, but that he simply has no way to let the people on his side use those scientific instruments.

Just like gene sequencing technology, Draco can completely come up with the second-generation technology for promotion in this era, but who will use it?
What use is an advanced instrument in this era if the user cannot be found? It is like giving a large computer to a medieval person. What use is there for them?
Therefore, Draco Malfoy has always felt that he should promote the integration of this world, the secular world and the wizarding world as quickly as possible. For this reason, he rescued Quirinus and made him a long-term guard.

And let his family enter the House of Lords again.

And now he's trying to create a potion that might allow the Squib to use magic again. In fact, no matter whether this plan succeeds or not, as long as he says it, the Squib will definitely know about it.

Because there are a large number of wizards from wizarding families in the entire Hogwarts School, and there will be more or less Squibs in these wizarding families.

Moreover, most of the Gryffindor people are big mouths, and they will spread what they hear.

Draco was very clear about this, so he discussed in detail with Professor Snape the uses of gene sequencing technology, and also told him his opinion on why Squibs and hemophilia are homologous diseases.

"In fact, there is one thing I have never understood, that is, we wizards think we are more advanced, but why do we have to marry close relatives?
Nowadays, the so-called holy family is almost all the product of consanguineous marriage, which brings many harms. It may cause the children we give birth to to be mentally handicapped or underdeveloped.

Of course, the most likely possibility is that the person has a genetic disease. In the world of ordinary people, the most likely possibility is hemophilia or other diseases, but here, the most likely possibility is a dud.

I really don’t know what they are thinking, are they going to destroy the entire wizarding world?”

Draco spoke his guess loudly, and the faces of everyone present immediately turned ugly.

"What's wrong? What's a Squib?"

Hermione looked at Pansy beside her and asked. These two people were the closest people to Harry and Draco, and the ones closest to them. Although there was at least dozens of Rons between the two sides, they were already the closest people in the first grade.

And because of Snape's preference for Draco and the female version of Harry, the people from Slytherin and Gryffindor began to stick together for warmth.

Also, the current snake king Draco has been talking to the little snakes about what the world of ordinary people is like (mainly the technological development of the future world, and a series of technological creations produced by Draco himself, such as GBA, PS, VCD, Nokia 3210, etc., as well as various drug extraction machines, as well as solar lights, water heaters and household appliances).

Therefore, the little snakes in the lower grades did not have any discrimination against Muggle wizards, but kept approaching them, because those Muggle wizards were more proficient in playing games than pure-blood wizards.

It was under such circumstances that Pansy and Hermione became friends.

"It refers to people in wizard families who cannot use magic. Oh, and what is hemophilia?"

Pansy answered the Squib's question and asked about the hemophiliac.

Hemophilia is a genetic disease, an X-linked recessive hereditary bleeding disorder caused by a defect in the gene for coagulation factor VIII or coagulation factor IX.

If you can't understand, you can think of this as the product of inbreeding.

There are records of hemophilia in the Jewish law code in the second century AD. In the 19th century, due to intermarriage between royal families, hemophilia appeared in many European royal families.

At that time, no one knew what was going on, so they thought it was a curse from God. But now we know that this disease was caused by inbreeding among the royal family.

In addition to hemophilia, other diseases may also occur as a result of consanguineous marriage.

The demise of the Habsburg dynasty that dominated Europe was due to a large number of crazy people in their family. It can also be said that it was because of inbreeding that so many crazy people appeared in their family.

So now technology tells us that we cannot marry close relatives, otherwise deformed children will be born. The reason why there are so many Squibs in your wizarding world may be because of this. Draco's understanding of modern technology is better than that of wizards like us who come from ordinary people.

If I hadn’t known that Draco came from a wizarding family, I would have thought he came from a family of scholars in the technological world.”

Hermione really admires Draco. He is not only good at magic, but also good at science. Hermione has also played with all the things that Draco gave to her college.

Hermione felt that the other party's technological level was really high, at least 10 to 20 years higher than the current world technological level. "In other words, Draco thinks that the Squibs are because of our inbreeding? But we are marrying the entire wizarding world!"

Pansy frowned. He didn't think this was possible, because there were many marriage candidates in pure-blood families, as many as twenty or thirty choices. How could such a thing happen?
"I'll ask you an answer!"

Hermione looked at her little sister, shook her head, and then played the game of "I ask, you answer" with her.

Everyone else in the classroom looked over, wanting to know what was going on, but they didn't dare to ask. Draco, who was still boiling the potion, didn't dare to ask, and Snape, who looked grim, could only look at the quiz game Hermione and her little sister were playing.

Professor Snape was also seeing this scene at this time. Although he was a half-blood wizard, he still didn't understand these things. He had no scientific knowledge at all.

"Ask me, I will answer as long as I know."

Pansy knew that he had to answer these questions because everyone was looking at him. Even if he didn't answer, someone else would. It would be better to answer himself and take the initiative.

"Okay, first question, do your ancestors have many descendants? I'm talking about the second generation, that is, do your ancestors have many children?"

"Yes, there are many. The Sacred Twenty Families, each of which had many descendants in the early days."

Hermione, "What about now? Among the twenty sacred families with a long history, which family has more than three descendants?"

Pansy opened her mouth to ask this question, he really couldn't answer it, "No, but the Weasley family, they have a lot of children."

"So, the Weasleys are the Sacred Twenty?"

Pansy shook her head. The so-called Holy 20 Families were all families with ancient histories. Although the Weasley family also had an ancient history, they had never intermarried with them, so they were not recognized by them. In addition, the only ones left in this family were the children, so they were not considered as one of the Holy 20 Families.

"So how many of the sacred 20 families have their bloodlines cut off now?"

This question still made Pansy open his mouth, not knowing how to answer, because he didn't know the answer to this question, "I don't know."

"Very good. Then I would like to ask, among those pure-blood wizard families, are there any that have more than three children? The pure-bloods I am talking about are those who have intermarried with wizard families."

In order to catch up with Draco, Hermione only slept one or two hours a day and drank energy potions to study every day. She learned whatever Draco learned, so Hermione knew a lot of things that Draco knew.

"No, wizard families have few descendants. This is common sense..."

As soon as Pansy finished speaking, this wizard family, with its rare common sense of offspring, immediately realized something. This was not common sense.

The Weasley family was so poor that they didn't even have a manor. They only had children, and each generation had more than four or five children, and none of them were Squibs.

"It seems that you have discovered that the Weasley family does not have a small number of descendants. Every generation of their family has many children and grandchildren, and none of them is a Squib, because their family will combine with the magical families of the whole Europe, and also combine with the Muggle wizards of the whole Europe. Therefore, there has never been any fusion with any family for three or five generations. Therefore, their family is related throughout Europe, but there are no blood relatives within three to five generations. It is extremely difficult for blood relatives to have children, and even if a child is born, the child will have problems, just like the Slytherin family back then. The demise of their family was due to inbreeding."

Hermione had known for a long time that Draco was researching the Squibs, so he studied the entire wizard bloodline inheritance, and then he discovered that the more a wizard family pursued pure blood, the more lunatics would be born, and at the same time, the more Squibs would be born, and the descendants of Squibs would also be Squibs, which was the same as hemophilia!

The faces of all the young wizards present turned grim, because they all thought of some things in their own families and their own relatives.

"It seems that you have thought of something. If you don't believe me, you can check the marriages between your own families in the past hundred years and see if the number of offspring is getting thinner and thinner. Don't put all the blame on the gentlemen. You all need medicine."

Hermione sneered. As the best student in the first year, she had been absorbed into the organization founded by Draco.

This organization is an integration of magic and science. The Ministry of Magic and Science is under the Cabinet, but except for economy, everything else is independent. Even the Prime Minister and the secretary cannot participate in the management of this department.

The nominal head of the Ministry of Magical Sciences is Edward, an unknown television producer and an unregistered wizard.

With the existence of such a minister, the treatment of the Ministry of Magical Sciences can naturally be imagined. All the information in Britain can be checked by the Ministry of Magical Sciences.

So it is normal for Hermione to know all this. After all, she has been identified as being able to become the new Minister of Magic within twenty years.

Just as everyone started talking about these things, Draco finally stopped his operation and said, "It's done. My medicine is done."

Draco Malfoy looked at the medicine in his hand. It was a pot of emerald green potion. The emerald green color was like a gem and looked intoxicating.

Snape couldn't control himself when he saw this color, and he involuntarily took two steps forward.

"Professor, even you can't stand this kind of charm, it seems that the ability of the veela is still very strong."

Draco's voice brought Snape back to his senses, and it also brought the others back to their senses.

It was then that the girls in the classroom realized that something was wrong with all the boys.

"Veela? What do you mean?"

Snape's face looked much uglier. He was actually tricked, which made him very unhappy, so he wanted to know what was going on.

"A potion made by combining Veela blood with some rare drugs can allow a person to possess some of the Veela's powers."

Draco looked at the potion in front of him and said, "I need a Squib."

(End of this chapter)