Missing Weasleys // Next year's Gryffindor Quidditch team

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No: HPFGUIDX 37503

Eclipse wrote:

> I have no problem with there being a missing Weasley child to 
> explain the gap. However what was the child that young doing home 
> alone? (If that's where the Dark Mark was.) Where was Molly and the 
> other younger children? 

If Charlie was born in 1967, he might have started at Hogwarts in 
1978, when Percy was maybe 2 years old and the twins were being born. 
So we could have Bill and Charlie away at Hogwarts, Molly busy giving 
birth, 'David' + optional other missing sibling sent to visit one pair 
of grandparents while the other grandmum is keeping Percy out of 
trouble at his own home... and it was the grandparents' house, not 
Arthur's house, that was destroyed with the Dark Mark over it. That 
would account for half the missing grandparents of our Weasleys.

Uncle Mark wrote:

> Who do you think will be next year's Gryffindor Quidditch Team?

I think the only Gryffindor player who needs to be replaced yet is 
Oliver, who was Captain and Keeper. I think Harry will be made 
Captain by acclamation, despite his protests. 

Because I think Ron is a nice kid and I want him to have something 
nice to be happy about, I *hope* Ron will be Keeper (he has the build 
for it) and a *good* one. With a good broomstick, whether provided by 
the school or as a gift from his older brothers. However, if JKR 
wants to pile up the angst on poor Ron, she could have him be beaten 
out in the try-outs for the Keeper position. Possibly by Dean Thomas, 
who also has the right build and is sports-mad (for soccer, but 
perhaps he has added a love of Quidditch: he went to the QWC with 
Seamus). And Dean Thomas is Muggle-born, and despite Ron's lack of 
racism, being beaten out in the wizarding sport by a Muggle-born 
surely would increase his hurt feelings. Possibly by one of the 
hypothetical two more Gryffindor girls in Harry's year; despite the 
relative level of gender equality in the Potterverse, being beaten at 
sports by a *girl* also must be extra unpleasant. Possibly by Ginny, 
who is not only a *girl* and *younger* but also his own sister! 

But they had BETTER start training some reserves, because the *next* 
year, Harry and the new Keeper will be the ONLY returning players. 

I planned out a fanfic about the fourth Gryffindor girl winning the 
try-outs for that Keeper position. She's been fairly unhappy at 
Hogwarts so far, as Hermione despises her anti-intellectualism, 
Parvati and Lavender despise her for being ungracefully tall and 
gawky and looking absurd in fashionable clothes, and the boys 
completely ignore her. But suddenly she turns out to be an MVP Keeper 
and suddenly all the boys are swarming around her like ants to sugar 
and suddenly Lavender and Parvati are trying to get to be her friends. 
I think it would be hysterically funny to watch Lavender and Parvati 
trying desperately to make nice to a girl whom they've treated like 
dirt for four years.