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

[Kathryn Lambert]

No: HPFGUIDX 154870



Tonks <tonks_op at yahoo.com> wrote:          <big snip>
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.

anigrrrl2 at yahoo.com writes:
  I think it's possible that it's just a coincidence. And Hermione's an only child, isn't she? I, too, am an only child, and I never thought about the number of children, or lack of number of children, in HP families as strange. As for the celibacy of the staff, I did always sort of feel that they had dedicated themselves to Hogwarts the same way someone would dedicate themselves to a vocation, and had voluntarily given up that kind of family life. 
  But I really think that most people in HP are only children or have only one sibling because, in a plotting and literary way, the story would get really cluttered up and difficult if every family was like the Weasleys. It would just be too many characters!  IMHO, Katie



         

 		
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