[HPforGrownups] Draco's siblings? (was Re: Who knows Tom Riddle is Voldemort

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 55662

On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, The Fox wrote:

> It was me, and I said Draco has all the worst qualities of both only 
> children *and* babies-of-the-family, and none of the best ones, which makes 
> me suspect he's one of those kids who's younger by quite a long way -- like 
> ten or eleven years.  (Stay tuned for fictional exploration of this.  [g])

<snip>

> This is a kid who knows how to 
> relate to other kids -- to his greatest advantage.  That's a youngest child 
> (of several), if I'm any judge.

The thing is, though, that if he is younger than his siblings by 10 or
more years, he wouldn't have had much chance to relate to them as peers.  
By the time he was old enough to interact with them they would be off at
school for most of the year.  And in my experience, most people I've known
with siblings that much older treat them more like secondary parents than
like fellow kids.  So being younger by a decade or more would make him act
like an only child for most practical purposes, and it wouldn't really
explain his ability to manipulate his classmates.


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Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"