Ginny Weasley-Weasley

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 12895

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Kimberly" <moongirlk at y...> wrote:


> Be... who would I like to be...  
> (snip) Ginny, because I want to be a Weasley! (snip)
> My inner child is stomping her foot and saying I should give being
> Hermione a shot, because she (my inner child) wants to marry a
> Weasley someday, and she sure can't do that if she's Ginny, but
> she's just going to have to live with it.

I suspect that Ginny CAN marry a Weasley. No, not one of her 
brothers. In SS, Draco said "Think my name's funny, do you? No need 
to ask who you are. My father told me all the Weasleys have red hair, 
freckles, and more children than they can afford."

ALL the Weasleys. That strongly suggests that Arthur had several 
siblings, not just Uncle Bilius who died of seeing a Grim, and that 
Arthur's father also had several siblings. I am constantly irritated 
that JKR never shows Ron having a pack of uncles, aunts, and cousins, 
nor explain away that they were all killed by Voldemort and 
Grindelwald before him.

If Arthur had a brother, Bilius, who died of seeing a Grim before he 
had had any children (in PoA, Ron refers to his Uncle Bilius, but not 
whether he was uncle on father's side or mother's side) and a sister, 
Carrie, who was killed by the Death Eaters (Carrie is in my fic), he 
could still have another brother, David (and sister Edith and brother 
Fred and sister Gemma), who had a pack of children including sons who 
would be Ginny's first cousins. In some USA states it is illegal for 
first cousins to marry and in others it is legal.

If Arthur's father's father's had another son (Arthur's uncle) who 
had a son (Arthur's first cousin), who had a son (Ginny's second 
cousing), that would be a Weasley she could marry even if first 
cousin marriage is illegal.