[HPforGrownups]children of DEs

[artsylynda at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 60159

In a message dated 6/12/2003 1:08:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com writes:

> I think (though would have a hard time
> substanciating from the canon) that the births of the
> children of the DEs coincides with the DEs downfall of
> Voldemort. They had a change of priorities due to
> their duty to their children, since even DEs are bound
> to the higher magical laws, which bind them to greater
> responsibilites.
> 
> Sue   
> 

The problem with that is, these kids are all in Harry's class, meaning 
they're all around 11 (I think they have to be 11 by Halloween to be in that 
particular year, right?  I can't remember where I read that, in a JKR interview at 
some point, I believe).  So the DE's had to get started on those babies about 
the time the Potters got Harry "underway" or they wouldn't be in the same class. 
 I see no way for Harry's defeating V. at the age of one year to make it 
possible for DE kids to start popping out of the oven in time to be in the same 
class with him -- it takes 9 months to make even a DE's baby, and they'd all be 
a year behind him even if the DE's got started on their families right away.  
The attack on Godrick's Hollow was on Halloween (as I recall), so Baby Harry 
was 16 months old that very day.  If the DE's all started families that night, 
the babies would be due the next July (I think I did my math right), thereby 
putting them in the NEXT year at Hogwart's.  Hmm, that means Harry himself was 
"created" on Halloween or thereabouts -- given JKR's interesting way of 
thinking, I wouldn't put it past her to have thought of this detail (even if her own 
birthday, like Harry's, is July 31).  So anyway, Crabbe, Goyle, Malfoy, etc., 
were all started BEFORE Voldemort's defeat.

Lynda 
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