OOtP: <Spoiler> Why Weren't the Weasleys in the Order?

[phoenixmum]

No: HPFGUIDX 66488

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "The Kirk" <pmah4600 at m...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "snufflesnbeakie" 
> <bhauersperger at h...> wrote:
> > I might have missed this topic of conversation, if it had been 
> > brought up previously, but I was just re-listening to my audio 
> tape 
> > version of OOtP and came across something that made me 
> wonder. . .
> > 
> > When Lupin was reassuring Mrs. Weasley after her terrible 
> ordeal 
> > with the boggart - he said that she hadn't been in the order last 
> > time, so she wouldn't have known that it was different:


During the last "war," Mr & Mrs Weasley had 6 or 7 children, many of 
them quite young, even babies.  Perhaps they were "keeping their 
heads down" to protect their children; Mrs Weasley at least may have 
been too busy with child care to do much for the Order.