The Mauraders' Generation -- no parents

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 123396


> 
> Juli: Actually we do have some canon. When Harry
> arrives at 12GP and meets there Sirius he tells hims
> the house has been empty for 10 years since his
> beloved mother died. His father had died before that,
> we don't know when.
> 
> Meri:Plus we don't have canon to tell us how old they
> were when they had their kids, so perhaps they were
> old to begin with. 
> 
> Juli: But Sirius refers to her as OLD, and by WW
> standards I guess old is pretty old (like a hundred?)

Finwitch:

I doubt it's as much 'wizard' standard as it is *aged* standard. I 
mean really, I doubt that say - Nicolas and Perenelle Flamel would 
consider Dumbledore (at 150 or so, acc. Rowling somewhere) as old 
(them being 670+ themselves..). Of course, all the students (and even 
their *parents* for that matter) consider Dumbledore as 'old'.

What comes to the lack of er - grandparents - well...

1) Neville's gran is very much alive.

2) I think Albus *could* be someone's grandfather. Or great-
grandfather. Or even great-great-grandfather.

3) Natural causes. Remember what Ron commented about the 
whole 'purity of blood' issue? 'Most are half blood anyway. If we 
hadn't married Muggles we've had died out'. So at least some of these 
grandparents DID die, of old age, of cancer, of whatever. Ordinary, 
Muggle ways. (A car accident, what ever).

4)There was also this Voldemort fellow and his Death Eaters running 
around killing people just because they LIKED it...

5) Grims? Do wizards *Really* die of fright because they happen to 
see a big black dog somewhere? If that were true, a *boggart* could 
kill them! (then again, Hermione's probably wrong. Someone who can't 
deal with a boggart might think that...) Oh yes, and let's not forget 
things like Devil's Snare and Mandrakes and basilisks and... how many 
committed suicide in Azkaban?

That done-- I think most people just don't talk about their 
grandparents... I don't think I ever mentioned mine at school when I 
was 11-17 or heard anyone else mention grandparents. (Neville's 
exception because he *lives* with his gran.) We just don't know. 
Maybe they're judges(auntie!), or examiners (Marchbanks, Tofty...) or 
Healers or patients at St Mungos- or bartenders or..

Anyway - unless Grandparents Weasley, Granger etc. have something to 
offer to the story, they probably won't make it there.

Hey-- did Mrs Figg get any kids or did Mr Figg die too soon? If she 
did get kids, what happened to them? Voldemort perhaps? Or some nasty 
wizard turning them into cats?

Finwitch