Pure Blood Fertility (was Malfoys on Weasleys)

[ghinghapuss]

No: HPFGUIDX 84403

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Ron said something in CoS to 
the effect that if the wizards hadn't married muggles they would've 
died out? 
<Snip >
> This would lead to the conclusion that the wizarding world doesn't 
> have some form of magic fertility treatment, otherwise they 
would've used it long ago to increase their diminishing numbers.

Now you've got me confused.  
I always thought that the Pure Bloods are dieing out not because of 
infertility but because of the lack of available partners.  

And there is a difference between the two.  For example, even if the 
Pure Bloods who are left have 6-12 kids for each family, unless they 
consent to marrying brother and sister they will still eventually die 
out.  Fertility will help but it doesn't really matter in the long 
run.  Historically European Royalty always had lots of kids and 
intermarried all over the place but still have reduced their numbers 
to just a hand full. 

It still seems odd that the Malfoys have only one child though.  Also 
the Blacks had few children considering the obvious desperate need 
for Pure Blood lines.  One branch having only two the other only 
three. Did they consider intermarrying their children?  

Of course the one advantage Lucius Malfoy has in Draco is the fact 
that his son is now the single heir to two great family fortunes and 
legacies.  The Black's and Malfoy's have united under the Malfoy 
name.  Probably not something he imagined when he married the 
youngest of three sisters with two male cousins.  He is putting all 
his eggs one basket though, not a strategy that seems to fit Lucius 
Malfoy character.  There definitely has to be more to the Malfoy's 
lack of children.

mandy