Ron's dead brother

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 85718

> 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 :)


I agree with Liz that the Weasleys really wanted a daughter and kept
trying until they had one. (I wrote more on this topic in another post
but am too lazy to look it up at the moment.)

Regarding a missing female Weasley, Rowling intended to bring a female
cousin into the GoF plot but had to eliminate her a third of the way
through the book. Maybe that's how all this discussion of a dead
Weasley child got started? (I realize there are other factors: the
boggart, the age gap, Mr. W's remark about the DE mark hanging over a
house where a murder was committed, but I'm not sure that evidence is
solid enough for all the speculation.) Anyway, here's the URL for
whatever it's worth:

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/quickquotes/articles/2000/0800-ew-jensen.html

Carol