Harry's wellbeing and possible sister

[Melody]

No: HPFGUIDX 53617

Grace wrote:
>Has anyone ever taken into consideration that Harry is premature.
>Aren't premature children smaller than others throughout their
>life?  Being that Harry is small could mean he was a premature
>baby.  Maybe Lily was so stressed about the whole Voldemort thing
>she caused herself to give birth earlier than expected.

Well honestly, to give a rather boring opinion on Harry's size, I just
always thought him small.  He is perfectly proportioned.  No one gapes
and stares in the alls at his physical stature as it is sub par.  He
is just smaller than most guys.  Nothing big.  Nothing to even make
fun of it seems.  I mean, Draco does not obsess over Harry's height.
Well, Draco is not that big either....

In my family, both my brother and I were born small and born on time.
 We then proceeded to be the runts in our class.  Skinny little things
too.  Scrawny is a better term.  Worked well for gymnastics, but I
digress.

Now, we were well fed, we got plenty of sun and exercise, and lots of
love from our parents, so don't think bad things on my parents as to
why we were small.  We just were.  So then, we continued to be small
and develop slowly.  As for me, I am by no means tall now, but I am
not short either.  As for my brother, who really should matter more
here since we are discussing Harry, he literally grew like nine inches
over one year.  It was impossible for my parents to keep him in shoes.
 So when he graduated from high school, he was one of the tallest in
his class.  We are both still skinny, but not as scrawny.

Now the HP point here...this is how I always pictured Harry.  A slow
developer.  He was born small.  His childhood was spent small.  But
once puberty hits, which *was* later than most in mine and my
brother's small sized childhood, then he will sprout tall.

Now, I know this did not help y'all figure out if Harry and Hermione
could be brother and sister, or even if he could have been born
premature, so let me move on.


Heidi wrote:
>>Of *course* it's physically possible for a mother to give birth
>>twice in a twelve month period. It's just dangerous and unusual,
>>given the physiology of a woman in the months after she's given
>>birth, and were Lily nursing, it would have been virtually
>>impossible without magical intervention.

Well.  Actually.  My best friend from high school just accomplished
that feat last year.  By accident, I assure you.  Quite a shock to her
and her husband in fact.  But funny thing is, she is not that healthy.
 She has lupus, so her pregnancies are high risk, and yet she managed
to have two perfect, healthy full term baby girls within 11 months of
each other.  Maybe my life has these rare events in them, but I think
it can happen if you are...exposed to the conditions at the right time.

So it is possible.  Less probable.  But if conditions are met, it can
happen.  Even in this muggle world.


Melody