[HPforGrownups] Re: HBP & the Weasleys

[Jocelyn Grunow]

No: HPFGUIDX 105403

on 10/7/2004 10:30 AM, caspenzoe at cruthw at earthlink.net wrote:

> Back to your question however, personally, it'd be neater if Ron had
> turned out to be a 7th Weasley son (with all the legendary
> connotations of the same), as that would bolster this speculation.
> However, of course  he's the 6th son. Hence my speculation about
> Ginny. 

If a son were lost at birth I wonder if that would count?  Does it have to
be seven LIVING sons? I recall that in Orson Scott Card's Seventh Son
trilogy, it has to be seven living sons, but I don't recall any other use of
the tale which required that.

Jocelyn