[HPforGrownups] Second Daugther Theory

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 45484


This is certainly an interesting theory.  May I augment it slightly?

Your idea of Mr. and Mrs. Weasley continuing to have children until
they have a girl reminds me a bit of _Pride and Prejudice_... In which,
The Bennett family's estate, Longbourn, is "entailed in default of
heirs male on a distant relation".  In other words, some
male-chauvanist ancestor of Mr. Bennett stipulated in his will that
inhertitence of Longbourn estate could only pass through *male* heirs,
and the Bennetts, despite their best and most valient efforts
(especially considering that there's no real sexual passion between
them), have all female children.  So therefore the estate on Mr. B.'s
decease will go to their nearest male relative, his distant cousin,
Mr. Collins, and the surviving family will be left out in the cold,
unless the two oldest and most sensible of the daughters are so
fortunate as to fall in love and marry rich men, which is what
in fact happens. :)

So suppose the Weasley's are involved in a gender-reversed, WW
equivalent of an entail, and that they will lose the Burrow unless
they can produce a *female* heir.  The first was this "Missing
Weasley", whom I shall christen Ceres Weasley ( see below for the
reason :) )... They lose Ceres by whatever means, and they
continue to have kids until Ginny, the current heir of the Burrow.
But I think Ceres is still alive and will resurface... I'm imagining
that she's falsely imprisoned in Azkaban, like Sirius.

Okay, the reason for "Ceres" is because the "Missing Weasley" theory
can't but remind me of the famous "Missing Planet" in the gap between
Mars and Jupiter that astronomers searched for for so long and finally
declared found with the discoverey, on the very first day of the 19th
century, of Ceres, the largest and first-known of the "minor" planets.
(This name is also in keeping with JKR's love of mythological references,
 as Ceres is the Roman goddess of agriculture. -- Future mate for Neville?? :) )

Comments?

-- 
Dave