[HPforGrownups] Re: Sevens.

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 159894

> Secca replies:
> Well, this is Jo's world being discussed, and her quote... So when she
> said this, I took it that *she* meant 'seventh child of a seventh
> child'... being a very modern and Politically Correct interpretation of
> the old wives tale (Which, BTW, is *not* how I personally feel the
> addage was meant 'back in the day'.)

I don't see how there's anything non-politically-correct in the first
place about "seventh [of a particular gender] child of a seventh [of
the same gender] child", which is essentially how it actually goes.
There's no inequality in that.

> This infers, in my opinion, that Jo must feel Molly Prewitt was also a
> seventh child. There is nothing in Canon that specifically precludes
> this possibility.

Wouldn't she have said something, then? At least mentioned siblings
other than Gideon and Fabian?

> Now 17 Sickles to a Galleon, and 29 knuts to a sickle; Here we have a
> different story! This implies that Wizard!Math is base(439)

No more than British!Math is base 240.

> which implies that a midget wearing glasses is being born...

True or false, I don't see how anything follows from it being base 439

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