A few more thoughts on DH

[owl]

This time last week I was busy reading.

I did start the book at the beginning (my hands were shaking a little bit with excitement), but at about a third of the way through I couldn't bear the suspense and flipped open the epilogue. Then I sat on bed and giggled for about a minute.

A couple of things I was thinking.

How was Colin Creevey around for the battle at Hogwarts? He's Muggle-born, isn't he?

I would have liked to see one of the school aged Slytherins staying for the fight—Millicent Bulstrode or someone random. Or Harry telling Albus that the Slytherins weren't the Death Eater youth League any more.

Talking of Slytherins, those ficcers who want to emulate Cassandra Claire and write Harry/Hermione/Draco threesomes have now just been handed version 2.0 with Albus, Rose (who will be exactly like her mother and nothing like Evol Ron, natch) and Scorpius. By the laws of dramatic irony Albus has to be a Slytherin, or Rose marry Scorpius, or both.

When did Dumbledore work out that Harry was a Horcrux? And how does the Harrycrux work with 'neither can live while the other survives'?

Comments

[sherrilina.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's perfectly safe for people to marry their first cousins--there's only a 2% increased chance of risk of problems in children of two first cousins than of unrelated people--that's not much! Odds are the children of first cousins are going to be healthy--any laws against first cousin marriage predate modern genetics, most places actually allow first cousins to marry anyway, with approximately 20% of couples worldwide being first cousin-couples--and there were many marriages b/t first cousins in the past--odds are YOU are descended from a first cousin pairing! The social stigma against them is really unfounded, there's nothing wrong with it! Read up on the facts of first cousin marriage here:

http://www.cousincouples.com/?page=facts

Sorry, it's just that I'm a big A/R shipper and so I've been reading up on it--and considering how inbred the wizarding world is anyway, with those purebloods only marrying purebloods (like even the Weasleys), A/R's children would really be better off than say Scorpius and the like anyway genetically speaking!