[HPforGrownups]children of DEs

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In a message dated 6/12/2003 2:03:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, Lynda writes:

> 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.

Still, I think it could be possible that the Death Eaters having children all around the same time could have lessened Voldemort's power little by little. Perhaps that's part of the reason Voldemort himself needed to go for the Potters. He could have sent a Death Eater to do his dirty work, but maybe they were all busy with their children, who were all about a year old at the time. 

I can definitely see the Death Eaters' attention being eaten away slowly by the Death Eater Baby Boom.  :)  

Of course, we don't know for certain that those people in the graveyard scene of GoF weren't Uncle or Aunt Crabbe and Goyle. 

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