[HPforGrownups] Re: Hogwarts Professors/HP universe - no partners; no children

[Rebecca Scalf]

No: HPFGUIDX 154864



--- Tonks <tonks_op at yahoo.com> wrote:

 
> As to the number of children the married ones have
> that also is 
> rather odd. I am an only child myself and even I
> noticed this as a 
> bit strange. The only thing I came up with here is
> that Rowling is 
> implanting the idea, as she did in chapter 2 of book
> 6, of the 
> concept of "my son, my only son" as a hidden
> reference to Christ. 
> These only children in the books are all sons. I
> don't see any other 
> way to interpret it.
> 
> Tonks_op


Witherwing: 

I have read another explanation for this - the theory
that JKR's wizard world is dying out. So many of the
wizard families, Weasleys excepted, have only one
child, as you detailed in your post. We have
characters like Serius Black, who were the end of the
family line. Certainly the "purebloods" are a thing of
the past. I think this raises the stakes in the
current war, because entire family lines are at risk
of disappearing.