teaching staff marital status & only children

[Audra1976 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 52685

In a message dated 21/02/2003 19:12:15 Eastern Standard Time, 
ophelia12uk at yahoo.co.uk writes:
> Draco said in Philospher's Stone that "all 
> the Weasleys have red hair and more children than they can afford." 
> This implies that Arthur Weasley would have siblings, but none of his 
> children have mentioned cousins. Shouldn't they have some at school 
> too? Or is this what Arthur was refering too when he was talking 
> about seeing the Dark Mark over your house?

Me:

I suppose it's possible that some of the Weasley cousins were killed during 
Voldemort's reign, but the way I rationalize it, is that Arthur is probably 
one of the younger siblings or the youngest in his family.  The first book 
doesn't take place until Ron, the second youngest Weasley, is a First Year.  
If their aunts and uncles are older, their cousins could have been in school 
with Bill and Charlie or even before that.  Look at how many years span 
between Bill and Ginny.  Over 10, right?  If there is that many years between 
Arthur and his older siblings, there could be cousins that are in their early 
30s.  They might have went to Hogwarts with Harry's dad and the Marauders!

Audra



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