[HPforGrownups] Re: Ron's dead brother

[Angel Moules]

No: HPFGUIDX 85555

Kelly wrote:
>> I think it's plausible that Mr. and Mrs. Weasley faced the same
>> situation in which they were happy with the children they had, but
>> just ended up having more children than they planned.

sera says:
> I don't think so. Percy may have been an accident, and maybe they
> wanted him to have a brother/sister closer to his age than Charlie
> (why they had another child). But this "other child" turned out to be
> twins. So if Mr. and Mrs. Weasley really intended to not have any more
> children, they would have stopped after the twins. After all, that's
> three more children than they "originally" wanted, in your theory.

Liz:
> My theory is that they really, really wanted at least one girl and 
> just kept going until they got one!



Angel:
My theory is that there was a girl between Charlie and Percy, and she
died. (see my fic 'Ludlow Fair' for the example:
http://www.thedarkarts.org/authorLinks/Angel_Of_The_North/ )

We don't know how the witches work. It might be typical to have a child
or two, then work for ten years, and then have more children. A life
expectancy of 200 would suggest that child-bearing may well go on a lot
later, and therefore this is an option.

Or maybe they had so many children so that the population would pull out
of decline :)