"Missing" Weasley Children

[Bernadette M. Crumb]

No: HPFGUIDX 37308

I know that we're having a lot of fun speculating horrible
reasons for that nine year gap between the oldest two Weasley
children and Percy, but has anyone thought that maybe one reason
for that is that Arthur might not have been home to conceive a
child during that time?

For those who have been discussing the possibility of Arthur
having been under an Imperius curse at some time--what if
whatever he did got him time in Azkaban (Shudder!).

Or, if he were an Auror, what if his work took him away from home
a lot?  To conceive you've got to be there at just the right
time!  In WWII, my grandfather didn't see his wife for three
years except for a brief period of leave sometime in the middle
of the war (he wasn't a soldier, he was a chemist working on a
fuels project that meant he had to be isolated in a place where
thet top secret work was being done for the duration).  Going by
things my grandmother told me, it wasn't through lack of trying
that they didn't end up with a sibling for my father!

And finally, what if it were the case that Molly had
miscarriages?  I have a friend who has eight kids... and has a
similar 9 year gap between two of them... she had six
miscarriages during that time.  It happens.  And maybe there
might have been a more sinister reason behind them... or not.

And finally, maybe they chose not to try to have more children at
that point in the VWI because they didn't want to bring more kids
into the world while it was so bad, and Percy was conceived
during a period when it looked as if things were improving.  Or
he could have been a "oops!" child.

All this, of course, is just my opinion.  :)  Worth the knuts you
paid for it!

Bernadette

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no
survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value
to survival."
-- C.S. Lewis (1898-1963).