Missing Weasleys // Next year's Gryffindor Quidditch team

[mecki987]

No: HPFGUIDX 37562

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "catlady_de_los_angeles" <catlady at w...> 
wrote:
> 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.
> 


You're probably right. Molly (and Arthur with her) are at St.Mungo's 
when *David* dies. But I have a theory that Percy is with his brother 
at his Grandparents house. He is a 3-year old, and told not to go 
outside. My 3-year old teaches me every day that the safest way to get 
him to do something is to say *don't*. So *Edward*-Percy cries "Leet's 
play hide and seek" and runs outside. When David and the Grandparents 
get outside, they meet the Deatheater without being prepared. Percy, 
safe in his hiding-place, has to witness their deaths. And for him, it 
is *all his fault*. His parents will tell him it is not (what can a 
3-year old do) but for Percy, breaking the rule caused it all. 
Everyone stops talking about David, to make it easier for Percy. Every 
time someone calls him Ed or Eddy he starts crying, maybe because 
David had had a similar nickname for him. So Molly and Arthur decide 
to call Edward by his second name. 

And, to put a little more grief upon Mollies head :), the story goes 
on.
After F&G, little Harry Weasly is born. About 18 months later, Molly 
is pregnant again, when she hears the story of Harry Potter and 
Voldemort.The excitement (and perhaps the grief, that if this had 
happened earlier, David would still be alive) caused the babies to 
come earlier than awaited. Twin girls are born (it is not unusual, 
once twins are in the family)- Ingrid and Jennifer. Only Jenny 
survives. When F&G see the baby they are told *this is Jenny*, but 
they say Ginny- and it stuck.

This would explain, how overprotective Molly is with Ginny. 
One of my twin-daughters died shortly after her birth and it took a 
long time and hard work, not to see her grave every time her 
twin-sister had as much as a cold or a nose-bleed. I'm still 
overprotective, but I know why, so I try to work against it. For Molly 
it would be the second child-death, and that is absolutely impossible 
to cope with. The constant rule-breaking of F&G would scare Molly too, 
she'd be afraid they get themselves into real trouble sooner or 
later.

   

So, here is the Weasly-family:
Arthur
Bill
Charlie
David
Fred & George
Edward - Percy
Ingrid and Jennifer *Ginny*

Perhaps, if the two child-deaths had not happened, there would have 
been Kathleen and Luis until we finally get to Molly <vbg>.

Again, this is a theory, pure speculation, far-fetched canon -based 
fun.....

But it fits, doesn't it?

Mecki