Fabian & Gideon's namesakes

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No: HPFGUIDX 111622

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> Gina:
>    My mother and I discuss this a lot. I think Fred and George may 
have been
> Molly's nephews that she and Arthur adopted. Think of P/S when she 
gets
> there names wrong and when in OOTP she finds that Ron is prefect 
she says
> something to the affect of being so proud and that he makes 
everyone in the
> family where either Fred or George then remarks something 
like "Well then who are we" but in a joking manner. Maybe they are 
not really the immediate family.

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Well, it's the sort of thing an author who doesn't really understand 
adoption might do, but it isn't the way adoption is.  The child you 
adopt is just as much your child as the one you give birth to. 
(Speaking from experience)  Now, perhaps if you had fostered a child 
and it was upfront from day one "We are foster parents..." but even 
then, I don't think so.
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