Weasley hair (was:Truths in the Wizarding World

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 7276

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Ebony " <ebonyink at h...> wrote:

The Weasleys are English. They live in Devon, near where JKR went to 
Exeter University. Ottery St. Catchpole has been identified as Ottery 
St. Mary, Chudley (with its Cannons) as Chudleigh, Stoatshead Hill as 
Stoke Hill, and even Burrow Farm has been found on the map.

While typing this, I went looking for Ottery St. Mary and found their 
home page! http://www.eastdevon.net/ottery/ which says: "Ottery St. 
Mary is a town steeped in history, tradition and folklore. It 
celebrates its history every year during Pixie Day (the Saturday 
nearest to the longest day) and the Flaming Tar Barrel event (5th 
November)" Pixie Day!

I'm inclined to think that the Weasley red hair goes with the name 
rather than by genetics. Altho' I imagine that Angelina's children 
have a somewhat darker shade of red.

> In my fic, two third-generation Weasleys don't have red hair, but 
> the red gene managed to tinge the mothers' platinum blonde/jet 
> black alleles somewhat.  I think that most of the Weasleys of 
> prior generations had spouses that were quite similar 
> ethnically--have we determined if the family is English or Scottish 
> or Irish?  If one or two married a very, very fair Nordic girl or 
> someone of another race, it doesn't necessarily follow that they'd 
> have the carroty red hair.