Board Thread:Q & A/@comment-4097293-20150226082755/@comment-27523265-20160107190644

The Grand Witch of Essex wrote: juliette was transformed through a complex process which can only occur by genetic transfusion made possible by the crossover of fundamental DNA material. its scientific if you are able to look at it like that. ive always believed that things that are made based on an archetypal model or template carries with it the purity of its percurssor, a best exemplary of its kind, like how an original version is always the most efficient. hereditary hexenbiests although pureblooded are subject to many physical defects or negative mutations that might have occured somewhere in their ancestral gene pool. juliette is pure not only in the sense that she was made, but because she is the first of her line so to speak, the first ancestor, unlike the diluted hexenbiests who might have mated with humans or half-zauberbiests in the past. and remember henrietta said that juliette was created in an "unorthodox way" which means that there are easier methods for humans to become hexenbiests and that due to the rarity of such an event as the verfluchte zwilingswester reversal ritual, juliette got turned into a hexenbeist as a result. it doesnt really make sense that juliette might have been a "squib" for lack of a better term (for anyone who doesnt watch harry pottery, theres always google) and that the verfluchte zwilingswester activated those dormant genes. and on the other hand, if we're all on board with the idea that a hexenbiest must die for another to be created, it wouldnt apply, because that would mean that for every hexenbiest birth, a hexenbiest would have to die, or the baby wouldnt live or be born a hexenbiest.

furthermore, i dont like to believe in the theory about how theres a purgatory of dead hexenbiest spirits waiting for human flesh vessels to be born so they can inhabit them.

the fact the potion had to be inhaled rather than ingested in my opinion plays into the potency of the transformation, instead of being diluted through the digestive process, the potion (along with adalind's fundamental hexenbiest DNA) got absorbed straight through the pulmonary arteries and straight into the blood. while the basic genetic features eventually disappeared  (physical appearance) adalind's fundamental genetic markers are left behind in juliette's DNA, resulting in the potion permanently converting Juliette's DNA to replicate adalind's. think of the verfluchte zwilingswester as an emulsifier that somehow makes the melding of human and hexenbiest DNA possible, remember when elizabeth tasted the remnant of the potion and she turned into both juliette and adalind, it makes sense (at least to me) that because the potion does indeed contain traces of juliette's own DNA mixed in with adalind's it makes the transformation possible. This is what I had been thinking myself. That such a potent potion from a very special book through a very special hat to become a very special hexenbiest like adalind created something of a bridge to the hexenbiest side f her through her human body. The hexenbiest gene at least is able to endure beyond the effects of the potion and because Juliette is superior in quality, perhaps certain genetic traits that would simply make for a superior specimen, the hexenbiest side manifests much more powerfully. It might be thought of as an overdose, with literally the most powerful components possible being used i the spell on an ordinary human, her body might not be able to fully revert back to 100% Juliette and what she is left with is being biologically related to Adalind, alomst lack a sister.