Second Daugther Theory

[mitchbailey82]

No: HPFGUIDX 45458

The Second Daughter Theory:

There's been a little bit of speculation about the 7th son theory 
throughout some of the posts on the Imperius!Arthur thread. I'd just 
like to put forward my proposition that a missing Weasely child could 
be female - in fact for the reasons I'm about to state I believe that 
if there is a missing child that that child is/was in fact a female.
Now due to the huge gap between Charlie and Percy (the Lexicon has 
Charlie born in '67 and Percy in '76 making it 9 years between them - 
although this figure can change depending on how you calculate it) So 
9 years between children when there (judging on school years) 2 years 
between Percy and the Twins an 2 years between the Twins and Ron and 
1 year between Ron and Ginny. I presume (based on the behaviour to 
each other (although this is not conclusive) in GOF) that Bill and 
Charlie are quite close to each other in age too. Now it is this 
seemingly large gap that has lead to suggestions for a missing child.
Now why do I feel that the missing child was a girl? 

Firstly:
one of the reasons some people have a lot of children (especially 
when all of the older children are of one gender i.e. all girls or 
all boys) is because they want a child of the gender that they don't 
have, i.e. they have Son's but want a daughter so therefore keep 
having children until they get the girl. 
So... (this is completely theoretical) Arthur and Molly have Bill, 
Charlie and then the *missing girl*, they then decide they have all 
the children they want/need but then a year or two later they lose 
the daughter (for whatever reason some have suggested the Imperius!
Arthur killed her although I don't subscribe to that idea) now after 
a while they decide that they would like another child -preferably a 
girl, but Percy's a boy and so they try again, the Twins are boys to 
and so is Ron and then Ginny comes along and so they have a daughter 
and don't need/want anymore children.

Secondly:
A while ago in some posts about Ginny it was highlighted how over 
protective of Ginny Molly was - I believe they quoted the fact that 
Molly didn't allow Ginny into the last pyramid (POA) as one of the 
examples of this. Now of course Ginny is the youngest and the only 
girl, but is this the only reason for her over protectiveness...

Thirdly:
This is a personal opinion but we already have 6 Weasley boys - if 
the *missing child* did turn out to be a boy it wouldn't be that 
special - we've already got enough male Weasleys to ponder about 
without the addition of another one! I female Weasley would stand out 
more purely because of the relative rarity.

So there you have it my Second Daughter Theory

Michelle