[HPforGrownups] Everything About Narcissa Malfoy

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

No: HPFGUIDX 31906

At 6:34 PM +0000 12/18/01, lucky_kari wrote:
>
>Why don't Lucius and Narcissa have more children (apparently)?

I suspect that if Draco had siblings, we'd have heard about them, 
too.  (Moreover, he acts more like an 'only' than either an 'eldest' 
or a 'younger'.)

>While plenty of people have only one child, it might be considered
>strange that a couple so obsessed with the continuation of proper
>bloodlines, would leave it to the Weasleys to populate the earth. Four
>reasons come to mind for this.
>
>1) Narcissa thinks it would ruin her figure. :)

One would think that, having had the one, she'd quit worrying about 
this.  Besides, I'm sure there are Tummy-Trimming Charms for that 
sort of thing, especially if one is wealthy.

>2) Lucius wants to pass on the estate whole to Draco.

This makes sense to me, especially with the comments about the number 
of Weasleys and their money troubles.  If having more children than 
one can afford is a sign of poverty, then being able to afford as 
many children as one wants and only having one _must_ be a sign of 
luxurious wealth, ne?

>3) Real-life reasons. Infertility etc.

Possible, although I'd be mightily suprised if Snape couldn't brew 
one a Fertility Philtre (then again, Lucius might well be too proud 
to ask, and especially too proud to ask Snape).

>4) An estrangement between Lucius and Narcissa

It's hard to tell whether that might be a reason for their stiff 
behavior at the World Cup, or if that was just their usual putting-on 
of airs.

My personal theory, and connected to (2) above:

5) Sex is just so . . . so _common_.  ;)  There are multiple refences 
to the wizarding world being in danger of dying out if wizards didn't 
occasionally breed with Muggles.  Even if this is mostly just because 
of the low population of wizards, there must be a certain ammount of 
inbreeding going on among the pureblood families.  Moreover, if one 
is a pureblood marrying pure, unless you go out of the country for 
your mate, it's quite likely that it's someone you know and have 
known from early childhood.  While occasionally this can result in a 
passionate match, it's more likely to be a companionate marriage at 
best.  Sex may just not be a big part of the relationship; it did its 
job once, so why bother?

The Weasleys are obviously an exception to the rule, if this is true. 
Maybe that one time the childhood sweethearts never lost it?

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