Bagman / Witchy Fertility

[jrober4211]

No: HPFGUIDX 34300

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "catlady_de_los_angeles" <catlady at w...> 
wrote:
>  
> When Molly visits Harry at Hogwarts during GoF, she tells anecdotes 
> of the gamekeeper before Hagrid, a man named Ogg. That SOUNDS like 
> she was at school more than 50 years ago, before the CoS flashback 
of 
> Tom Riddle framing Hagrid for opening the Chamber of Secrets and 
> getting  him expelled, after which Dumbledore kept Hagrid on as 
> gamekeeper. She would be at least 68 in GoF if she left Hogwarts 
> before Hagrid became gamekeeper, and at least 62 if Ogg was there 
> only for the first part of her first year. So people on the list 
made 
> up theories about how a thirteen (or fourteen) year old Hagrid 
> couldn't have just become gamekeeper in charge, he must have 
started 
> as assisstant to the previous gamekeeper (Ogg). 
> 
>  If Molly is 70 the same year that her 
> youngest (Ginny) is 13 (during GoF, which was being publicised by 
> that interview), subtraction says she was 57 when Ginny was born.
> 
> OK, but can I point out that it is still biologically possible, 
although rare, for a 57 year old woman to become pregnant. Average 
age for cessation of menstruation is 55 over here in the US. My own 
grandmother had her last child at age 54. So, do you suppose Molly 
and Mr. Weasley kept having children they could not afford because 
they wanted a girl, and then decided to use birth control after Ginny 
was born? Or do you think Molly had Ginny as a "change of life" baby 
as we call it in Alabama?

Jo Ellen