[HPforGrownups] Re: Sevens.

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 159837

> Geoff:
> 1: The first one addressed to "The Cupboard under the stairs".
[...]
> 8: The letter brought by Hagrid addressed to "The Floor, Hut-on-the-Rock"
>
> So I think we can safely cross that one off the "sevens" list.

That's seven times. She wasn't counting the one Hagrid brought, since
it was delivered personally. I think that it's really just because
it's the number of days in a week, nothing more significant

Secca:
> Jo said somewhere in an interview that she was playing off the
> old "seventh son of a seventh son" myth... Ginny is the first female
> in a while in the Weasley family, and is the seventh daughter...

I don't recall the other six Weasley sisters, so ITYM seventh child.
And Arthur and Molly aren'th the seventh anything - we know each had
only two brothers (well, I suppose we don't _know_ Molly didn't have
more, but JKR's said Arthur didn't) and we don't know relative ages.

Secca again:
> JKR: The backstory with Ginny was, she was the first girl to arrive
> in the Weasley family in generations, but there's that old tradition
> of the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter and a seventh son of a
> seventh son, so that's why she's the seventh,

Well, apart from being in fact the first daughter, those old
traditions don't, as far as i can tell, include anything about the
seventh son/daughter/child of someone who was not a seventh whatever
him/herself.

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Random832