Lestrange's child?

[bluesqueak]

No: HPFGUIDX 45609

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i...> wrote:
> First of all, it was theorized that the LeStranges could in fact 
> have a child.  But who?  Cho Chang was mentioned, but I doubt it.  
>What about Viktor Krum?  I just find it strange that the person who 
> he held dearest (or whatever the wording was) in the second task 
>was a girl he had only met a few months before.  But if he indeed 
> those who he had been raised by it would be different.  He, being 
> had no close relations, and only had eighteen,would've been about 
> four at the time of the fall of Voldemort.  The
> LeStranges were sentenced to Azkaban sometime after that,(for the 
> torture of the Longbottoms probably).  In which case he may have 
> been at least five or six.  Old enough to remember his real family 
> and know that whoever raised him was, no matter how well they 
> cared for him, they weren't his own family.
 
Minor problem with 'Krum is Lestrange's child' theory - in GoF Ch. 
31 page 534 UK hardback, Krum is shown talking in Bulgarian with his 
parents. He is described as having '*inherited* his father's hooked 
nose' [my emphasis].

I suppose this could be misdirection, since it's Harry's pov, but I 
suspect more likely JKR had noticed (or wanted) the similarity 
between Krum and Snape's appearance, and wanted to stop any 'Krum is 
Snape's love-child' [::pauses briefly to boggle at this image::] 
theories dead by emphasising that Viktor is the spitting image of 
his Bulgarian father.

Which also makes the 'Krum is baby Lestrange' theory a bit 
complicated. 

As does the age problem. Krum is 4 years older than Harry, so if the 
Lestranges were the same age as Harry's parents, they would have had 
to have been teenage parents (assuming that Harry's parents were 
about 22 when he was born); probably having a 'shotgun' marriage 
straight out of Hogwarts...

I don't have a big problem with Krum having Hermione as the person 
he holds dearest. He's eighteen, about the right time to fall really 
*intensely* for someone and think they are the most important person 
in the entire world, ever. And Hermione likes *him*, not Viktor Krum 
the Quidditch star, and that may also be extremely important for him 
as well.

Not that I think it'll last...

Pip!Squeak