[HPforGrownups] Re: What was Mrs. Weasley Thinking?

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 90002

On 31 Jan 2004 at 2:14, maneelyfh wrote:

> Not only did she forget the twins but Ginny as well...... This does 
> not bother me so as I have a friend who has 8 siblings. Her mom was 
> pregnant for 10 yrs.  My friend told me a funny story of how her mom 
> was in a panic one day because she had lost the youngest. The kids 
> ran around frantically searching for this child only to realize the 
> child had held on her mom's hip the entire time. She was so used to 
> holding a kid on her hip that when she did not see him playing with 
> the others she forgot she was holding him. Raising a large brood can 
> do funny things mothers. 

I don't think she forgets Ginny - Ginny isn't old enough to be a 
prefect yet - her statement could mean 'so far' or she could be 
confident for some reason that Ginny will be a prefect. Fred and 
George, though, are old enough - and they in the room with her. 
Yes, a mother with a large group of kids can occasionally forget 
something, sure - but to actually totally forget two of them 
exist...


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