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

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No: HPFGUIDX 63204

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Mindy HP Fan 
<MollyWeazley at j...> wrote:
<Snip>
> just bringing up tons of their own posts and long winded rambles. I
> posted several dozen questions and maybe two of them received a 
response.
> I'm puzzled and miffed.
> 
> But anyway, here is a very important question that I am repeating 
for the
> third time, with the hopes that someone take notice of it:
> 
> * 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?
> 
> * 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? 
> 
> Maybe we'll see a Bill/Fleur marriage in Book Six... it seems ppl 
have
> missed that vague reference in OoP...
> 
> I'm betting ten galleons that this post won't even get answered ;)
> 
> ~ M!ndy
> 
> A Molly Weasley wannabe


Hey Mindy/Molly, don't get upset, there are so many posts here and a 
lot of them get answered but honestly by the time I post something 
there are twenty other posts so it is hard to keep up...

1.  Good question, did not think about it, where the heck were they?  
Unusual plot hole... so is the one where she does not wrap up 
Hermione's hat making habit - she never learns that the elfs are not 
getting their hats.

2.  This one is easy... JKR is writing from a teenager's point of 
view, and the birthrate and marriages are just not important... 
dating is, and exams, and Quidditch.  There is talk about babies... 
how Harry and Neville was born.  And marriages - just in their 
parents generation.  It is rather important actually, who is born 
when and who is married to whom; who is whose relative.  

Marta