Ron as seventh son

[cassandraclaire73]

No: HPFGUIDX 37326

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

Gwen:> > A'jes' 
> > Blue decided to pair all the children, so that they broke into 
> > groups of two kids no more than a year or two apart. Bill and 
> > Charlie. Erec and Percy.  Fred and George. Ron and Ginny. 
> > (Interestingly, she did all this because she wanted Ron to be a 
> > seventh son, so "Ron is a Seer" fans, take note.)"
> 
Barb: This also occurs in Cassie Claire's fics.  I don't know for 
certain,  but a possible inspiration for this might have been Susan 
> Cooper's "The Dark is Rising" sequence, in which the hero, the 
> youngest of a large brood (and, he thought, the sixth son) turns 
out  to be the seventh son (and he learns that his father is also a 
> seventh son) because he was unaware of an older brother who died 
> young."

:D At Barb. Actually, that didn't come from The Dark Is Rising, 
although I can see how it would look like that. It came out of a 
discussion right here on HP4GU over a year and a half ago. (Cannot be 
bothered to do archive search, but it ought to be findable in there 
under "Ron" and "seventh son.")

In TDIR, Will isn't aware he's a seventh son, and in my fics, Ron 
knows he had a brother who died, since his brother drowned when he 
was six. It was merely my attempt to 1) make Ron a seer and 2) 
Explain why he knew anti-drowning charms. :D I love TDIR though and 
did a nod to it when I gave Harry an amulet to wear on his belt, as 
Will Stanton wears the six Signs. The Seventh Son mythology is well 
established although I don't know where it originates -- I know 
Achilles was the seventh son of Thetis, I know Orson Scott Card drew 
on the seventh son myths in his Alvin Maker series, but I'm unsure 
where it began.

"Ron is a seventh son" is a wildly popular plot device in fics, as it 
makes him a Seer and gives him something useful to do, as well as 
explaining the gap between Percy and Charlie. There is a Dark Is 
Rising - based Seventh Son fic called In the Bleak Midwinter where 
Ron, like Will, discovers that he is a seventh son by examining his 
family's old Christmas ornaments. It's by Morgead and is at 
Sugarquill.


Cassie