Narcissa Malfoy

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 121792


Betsy wrote (snipped):
>Which leads me to a question that's been bugging me for a while. Why 
>is Draco an only child? It doesn't make sense for the Malfoy family 
>to have only one heir,especially in those dangerous times.

Leah:

The little we've seen of Narcissa seems to me to a be a picture of a 
cold woman.  And I imagine the Malfoys marriage to have been more or 
less arranged, to make sure she didn't go the same way as her sister. 
So perhaps once the heir had arrived Narcissa wasn't too keen on 
producing any spare.

However, Draco is not alone in being alone. Theo Nott is an only 
child (of course we don't know when his mother died) and fortunately 
there don't seem to be hordes of little Crabbes and Goyles.  I was 
wondering whether this lack of progeny had anything to do with being 
a DE, but in fact, the Weasleys are an exception in the wizarding 
world in general.  Barty Crouch Jnr was an only, so, we assume , was 
James Potter, Sirius had one brother.  We don't get to hear of many 
older or younger siblings amongst Harry's contemporaries.

The effect of this of course, is to make the Weasleys warmer, but one 
does wonder about the effect of all that pure blood breeding on the 
genes.

Leah