Harry Junior

[julie]

No: HPFGUIDX 171280


>
> Jim:
> 
> As a parent, I have a perspective here: I think Ginny would look on
> the child as a consolation, and if there was anyone who had no 
reason
> to worry about bringing up her baby alone, it would be Ginny Potter.
> As strong as she is, she would handle it like few other people 
could.
> We have to give Ginny the respect to accept her choice, and I feel
> sure her choice would be to have a baby with Harry.
> 
> 
> Magpie:
> Speaking as just a reader, and a selfish one, I would be incredibly 
annoyed
> (and shocked) if JKR wasted space in the seventh book pre-epilogue 
for
> Harry and Ginny to decide to get married so that Ginny Potter can 
decide to
> have an infant as a "piece of Harry" after he's dead or not. Of all 
the
> problems Harry Potter has dealt with in the series, the need to 
pass his
> genes on to the next generation via a baby has never been one of 
them, nor
> has whether Ginny Weasley is strong enough to be a single mother. 
Both
> questions seem completely irrelevent to anything going on.
>  
>

Julie:
I agree. I can't see this subject even being breached. Is Ginny
going to beg Harry to get her pregnant with his child so she'll
have something of him if he dies? Or will Harry convince Ginny
they should boink and get her preggers so their baby can carry
on his genes when he kicks the bucket? Or maybe they're going to
fall into each other's arms in a desperate desire to consummate 
their relationship just in case they never get the chance later,
and the baby will be an unexpected byproduct that they then
realize (or Ginny alone realizes) will continue the Potter
genetic line and comfort Ginny in her bereavement?

In any scenario, the bigger question is, when will they find
the time and opportunity? Harry has a full agenda. He's already
pushed Ginny away from him to keep her safer. What is going
to change his mind? They're in the middle of a war, 17 and
16 years old, and while I know this scenario has played out
maybe countless times in real life, this is a book. And not
a book about Harry and Ginny's relationship, which isn't even
a central one in Harry's life in DH, if the book covers are 
anything to go by. 

That said, I do think Harry *will* get Ginny pregnant. Probably
more than once. A dozen times even ;-) In the epilogue. And 
their children will grow up with both mother and father, a fact
which will be of great relevance and importance to Harry.

Julie