Weasley Kids, Crabbe and Goyle, schools, olympics, PCGE

[Simon Branford]

No: HPFGUIDX 1730

"I also am intrigued by the analysis that the Weasley's had fewer kids
during the reign of Voldy, or the suggestion they may have even lost some in
that period.  I had previously proposed a general wizard low birth rate
during The Bad Years, but didn't detail analyze the age/date clues."

As I pointed out in my post yesterday, it seems that Arthur and Molly had
more kids during the reign of Voldemort. Percy, Fred, George and Ron were
definitely born during the period when he was gaining most support. Also,
depending on when she was born, Ginny was probably conceived during this
period- maybe even born during the reign of terror.

Maybe, due to quite a few wizarding families being killed off, the Weasley's
decided to embark on a one family repopulation of the wizarding world. Or
maybe all the kids are adopted, with the one constraint that Arthur and
Molly put on adoption being that the kids must have red hair.

Have I made enough silly suggestions, or should I aim for a few more?

"Crabb & Goyle's first names are divulged on the train in Book III i
believe."

PoA Chapter 5. Vincent and Gregory.

"That being said, I believe the great majority of state schools in Britain
are like the one attended by my children - it gets along perfectly well with
no house system at all and no other system of internal competition."

The Upper school (13+) that I went to did not have a house system but
grouped classes together for sports day (one class from each year group).
This meant that it was really hard to cheer for others in your team, as the
likely hood was that you did not know them very well.

"Some people who feel this way seem to think that the UK's worth is
determined by how many medals are won at the Olympics and whether or not
England, Scotland or Wales qualify for the football world cup.  This is
clearly rubbish - the UK's worth is quite obviously determined by the
performance the England Cricket team!"

Well we have won as many gold medals as last time (an amazing total of one)
so this Olympics is a fabulous success following on the back of the
cricketers performance this summer. We must be the best sporting country in
the world. This is probably bar Equatorial Guinea with their swimmer Eric, I
hope you all saw (or heard about the race) in question.

"NB: to all UK dwellers do not think PGCE is an easy option. Basically you
do tyhe 4yrs of a BEd compressed into one.  It's killing me."

Good luck for the rest of the course. I know a few people doing the course
and they have also commented on how hard it is.

Simon