OOP: Where was the guard?/Birthrate in Wizarding World

[Joshua Dyal]

No: HPFGUIDX 63188

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Mindy HP Fan 
<MollyWeazley at j...> wrote:
> * Can you explain where the Order members were that fateful night 
when
> the Death Eaters infiltrated the Department of Mysteries? They were
> guarding the prophecy so faithfully for months and months, and on 
that
> particular night when Voldemort lured Harry down to the DoM, no one 
was
> around to see them there? that's strange... how come they showed up
> later? Who tipped them off?

Snape did.  Dumbledore explains that to Harry.  As to where they were 
in the first place, that's a better question.


> * This question, I haven't reaised yet, but I'm curious... Note the
> absence of a Maternity Department in St. Mungo's. What *is* the 
birthrate
> in the Wizarding World? You  never hear mention of someone being
> pregnant, someone giving birth... no one gets a new sibling or
> niece/nephew... no mention of people getting married either... 
There's
> like this huge generational gap between the Hogwarts generation and 
the
> MWPP generation.. No young couples? No little babies? Where do these
> people give birth, at home? or is there a separate hospital? 

St. Mungo's is the hospital of "magical maladies" as is stated every 
time it's referred to.  Pregnancy, while something that I bet my wife 
would say could use a little magical Healer influence, is a far cry 
from a magical malady.

> Maybe we'll see a Bill/Fleur marriage in Book Six... it seems ppl 
have
> missed that vague reference in OoP...

Not missed, there's just not much to say.  We got hints of their 
interest in each other towards the end of GoF, so hearing that they 
were still interested in each other to some degree (never actually 
states that they're dating, does it?) isn't anything we didn't 
already know.

> I'm betting ten galleons that this post won't even get answered ;)

Pay up!  :)