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

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 63338

<<< --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Mindy HP Fan wrote: I'm 
puzzled and miffed.>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says:

Don't be. I tried to catch up with hundreds of posts in a growing 
list and started to hyperventilate. After the first five hundred 
posts, you have to vent, before book VI comes out.

At any rate, isolated populations die out for lack of genetic 
diversity (weak genes that naturally stay recessive become dominant. 
sterility ensues). The Weasleys seem to be the only pureblood family 
that can reproduce pretty much at will. Even where there is no overt 
anti-muggle prejudice, there seems to be a cultural distance that 
precludes the kind of cross pollination that keeps a species robust.
--JDR