[HPforGrownups] The Reproduction Habits of Wizards

[Jake Storm]

No: HPFGUIDX 35783

>From: "Laura Huntley" <huntleyl at mssm.org>
>Why, if wizarding folk live longer (and therefore take a correspondingly 
>longer time to hit menopause), are there less wizards than Muggles 
>inhabiting the world??
>Combined with the fact that they are better adapted to survival and keeping 
>themselves healthy, etc. -- *and* considering many of them still uphold 
>medieval values (I.e. make lots and lots of kiddies..lookit the Weasleys), 
>one would think the world ought to be over run with them.

Actually, look at the Weasleys as an exception that makes a rule. Draco has 
no siblings we've heard about. Nor does Neville, though perhaps he might 
have, had his parents not been Crucioed into St. Mungos. Only one Chang, one 
Parkinson, one Nott...look at Harry's fellow students. Very few have 
siblings. The Creevy brothers, the Patil sisters, erm, I think that's it, 
other than the Weasleys.

My thought is that, by virtue of their magical natures and their longevity, 
wizard folk breed slowly as a rule, which might be part of why the Malfoy 
family sneers so heavily in their direction: it could well be that they'd be 
sneered at if they were as rich as Croesus, simly because they're so very 
fertile.

J

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