the Weasley Cousins,

[rtbthw_mom]

No: HPFGUIDX 150824

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Len Jaffe <orgone9 at ...> wrote:
>
> > latoya: 
> >  Molly introduces her [ deletio ]
> > with more Hogwarts students.
> > 
> > Catherine now:
> >   [ edito sommorro] So either they were killed, or
> > moved to other countries and attend other wizarding
> > institutions. Or JKR didn't think ahead this far and
> > now has to write herself out of this little
> > conundrum....
> 
> Len:
> Perhaps there are more schools in England, but we only
> concern ourselves with hogwarts.  The idea of other
> wizarding schools is never broached until Gof, so the
> idea that the Weasley cousins go to other schools
> isn't so far fetched.  
> 
> If Hogwarts is Eaton, then surely there's enough
> wizard kids to support a Smeltings, and maybe even a
> St. Brutus'.  
> 
> Then again, we only ever meet three or four new
> characters everybody else at the school are just a
> bunch of shadows.  So they could be there, but not 
> play any role in the parts of Ron's life that get
> written about.  Or maybe the rest of the weasley
> family shuns the Ottery-St. Catchpole faction.  Maybe
> they're sick of looking at the plug collection :-)
> 
> Len.
>

Sorry to be so behind in reading all the posts, but I just wanted to 
interject here, that the Weasleys we know are the only Weasleys at 
Hogwarts.  Near the end of OtP, the twins have already left and when 
Umbridge catches Harry in her office, Ron and Ginny are among those 
she intends to expel, and she makes the comment that "Hogwarts will 
soon be a Weasley-free zone." (quoted from memory)  So, any cousins 
must either be older or younger than our group.

~Pat