[HPforGrownups]children of DEs

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 60164

Sue:
>
> > 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.
Lynda:
> 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.

I have thought before that Trelawney's first prophecy had to do with Harry.
However, maybe it was worded in such a way that would make Voldemort
originally think that it had to do with an infant born at a particular time
of year, or even just in a particular year.  Therefore, maybe he told his
DE's to mate and have a kid by a certain date, or just within that year.
Maybe V was trying to thwart the prophecy by having the kid be one of the
offspring of someone loyal to him.  Unfortunately for him, the kid in
question happened to be born to the Potters instead.  Just a thought on this
here.

Kelly Grosskreutz
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