teaching staff marital status & only children

[Dai Evans]

No: HPFGUIDX 13072

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Zarleycat at a... wrote:
> For that matter, the only couples we have seen regularly are the 
> Dursleys and the Weasleys. Is this more evidence of the number of 
> people who died during Voldemort's first rise to power?

>From the terror the very mention of Vs name inspires in people, it is 
quite possible that there was a very large number of deaths. This 
would explain many things, from the size of Harry's year (seeming not 
to fit the size of the school) to the lack of spouses. A very large 
number of deaths (remember Arthur Weasleys explanation of the dark 
mark in GoF - it seemed like it happened a lot) would explain several 
of the apparent discontinuities.



Dai