[HPforGrownups] RE: Gap in Weasley family

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 1714

Hi --

Katie Bell wrote:

> She could have been quite young when Bill and Charlie were born,
> and then the other five came along a while later.

I think this is fairly probable.  And, like Sister Mary pointed out,
there's a decent chance that there was one or more Weasley children in
between Charlie & Percy -- miscarriages, stillborns, early infant
deaths.  Or, the gap could be just as you suggested and nothing more
than they could only truly afford the 2 kids for awhile there & then
decided to go ahead & have the large family they'd always wanted.

> Since we know that the Weasleys (Arthur and Molly) are at least seven
> years older than the Marauders (Molly left before the Willow
> was planted, which happened when Remus started the school) they have
> to be around fifty anyway... I have a visual image of Bill as around
> 27, myself, and his mother nagging him to 'settle down with some nice
> witch and raise a family', hence her obsession with cutting his hair.

Yep -- that's my image too.  I think Bill is 26/27 in GoF and Charlie is
about 24/25.  And, since the Weasleys are at least 7 yrs older than the
Marauders, it doesn't seem likely to me that Bill is much less than 26
or 27.

Penny


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