Random facts ... Weasleys- inconsistency or flint?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 99089

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:

Mimi:
> > > I wonder if JKR will correct this (and the 
stockbroker/accountant 
> > > bit) when she edits her page next.
> 
> 
> > Annemehr:
> > I never thought it was JKR's mistake so much as Ron's.  He 
said, "I
> > think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never
> > talk about him."  If they never talk about him, he could have 
gone 
> > from an accountant just out of school to a stockbroker with a 
> > Hogwarts-aged daughter without their ever knowing.  Ron didn't 
sound
> > to sure about it, anyway.

Geoff:
I would agree. Ron says "I /think/ Mum's got a second cousin...." 
He's not sure whether (1) he's a second cousin or (2) he's an 
accountant. (3) I assume he's a good deal older than Ron and so he 
hasn't bothered/wanted/needed to find out.

Again, why "think"? Because they never talk about him. I have a 
second cousin who is older than me, whom I only met for the first 
time last year. I don't know what she did as a job; it's just never 
come up in conversation. I've side before that, in real world 
situations, we don't interrogate new acquaintances or our realtives 
so that we know every last detail about them.