alchemy / Alla's question / Hogwarts class

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 185976

Potioncat wrote:
> lol, right after I posted, I gave that some thought, too. I'd want a
really good contraceptive potion---I wonder what it would be called? 

Carol responds:
Since not everyone in the WW is a good potion maker and you might not
have the ingredients or the potion itself handy (or it might take a
long time to brew), I think a more practical alternative would be a
spell (Contraceptio?). Of course, you'd have to perform it on
yourself. Performing it on your wife or husband without their consent
would cause a serious argument! And it would have to be a temporary,
one-time only spell or you'd find yourself sterile.

Potioncat: 
> I think Harry might have wanted a big family, but Ginny would know
better. So their 3 may have been a compromise--it's a number greater
than a small family, not yet a large one.

Carol responds:
That's possible. Or maybe, like Molly, Ginny was determined to keep
trying until she had a daughter as well as sons. Luckily for her, the
daughter was the third child rather than the seventh! (My parents did
the same thing, only they had two daughters and successfully tried for
a son. If he'd been another girl, they'd have tried a fourth time.)

Potioncat: 
> I tried to post this earlier, it was eaten by either Yahoomort, or
my own antivirus program.

Carol:
Can an antivirus program eat a post? With me, the cause of lost posts
is usually forgetting to switch to a new window before I look
something up. (OT--sorry.)

Carol, pretty sure that her two posts in one day on Ginny set a new
personal record